50 Best Winter Night Songs for IG Reels & Stories

Best Songs for Winter Nights on Instagram Stories

There’s a certain kind of quiet that hangs in the air on a winter night. The streets feel emptier than usual, the cold presses in, and the world outside looks like it has been dimmed to half brightness. That’s when music does the heavy lifting, filling the silence with something warmer, stranger, or heavier than the moment itself. These tracks lean into that space where you’re bundled in layers, scrolling under a blanket, or out walking with your breath showing, and the right song takes over the atmosphere. Some of them may not be literally tied to winter nights, but the way they sound makes them belong there anyway.

Winter nights don’t glow the way summer evenings do. They flicker under harsh streetlights, thump with bass rattling behind apartment walls, or unravel in long stretches of stillness that feel heavier than the hours they fill. The right track changes how that looks in your feed. You might catch a flick of a cigarette in the dark synced with a moody guitar riff. Or maybe a soft piano line threads through a shaky video of snow falling under headlights. It’s never clean, never staged like a movie set, but that raw edge makes it stick harder when people stop to watch.

This playlist pulls from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that tap into the cold-night feeling without smoothing out the mess of it. Some glow with comfort, some brood in the quiet, some burn hot enough to feel like they’re cracking through the frost. They may not all be obvious winter picks, but they settle into that mood when you blast them through your Story. Here are the best winter night songs for Instagram reels and stories.

1. 'Hazy Shade of Winter' by The Bangles

2. 'Snow (Hey Oh)' by Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. 'Winter Wonderland' by Bing Crosby

4. 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' by Dean Martin

5. 'White Winter Hymnal' by Fleet Foxes

6. 'Cold' by Annie Lennox

7. 'Winterlude' by Bob Dylan

8. 'Winter Song' by Lindisfarne

9. 'Winter Lady' by Leonard Cohen

10. 'Winter' by Tori Amos

11. 'Snow on the Beach' by Taylor Swift featuring Lana Del Rey

12. 'My December' by Linkin Park

13. 'Wintertime Love' by The Doors

14. 'Colder Weather' by Zac Brown Band

15. 'Valley Winter Song' by Fountains of Wayne

16. 'Coldest Winter' by Kanye West

17. 'Early Winter' by Gwen Stefani

18. 'Winter' by Khalid

19. 'Wintertime' by Cordae

20. 'Cold Weather Blues' by Muddy Waters

21. 'February Stars' by Foo Fighters

22. 'California Dreamin'' by The Mamas & The Papas

23. 'Cold December Night' by Michael Bublé

24. 'Solitude' by Billie Holiday

25. 'Last Christmas' by Wham!

26. 'I Am a Rock' by Simon & Garfunkel

27. 'Urge for Going' by Joni Mitchell

28. 'Winterlong' by Neil Young

29. 'Winter Song' by Screaming Trees

30. 'The Blizzard' by Camera Obscura

31. 'Walk Out to Winter' by Aztec Camera

32. 'Rivers and Roads' by The Head and the Heart

33. 'Northern Attitude' by Noah Kahan

34. 'Winter's Gate' by Insomnium

35. 'Fade Into You' by Mazzy Star

36. 'To Drive the Cold Winter Away' by Loreena McKennitt

37. 'Sister Winter' by Sufjan Stevens

38. 'Chanson de neige' by Kate Bush

39. 'Winter' by Vivaldi

40. 'Let It Go' by Idina Menzel

41. 'Snowbound' by Genesis

42. 'Winter Bear' by V

43. 'Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

44. 'Winter Is Passing' by Luluc

45. 'The Last Snowstorm of the Year' by Low

46. 'Blue Angel Lounge' by The Blue Angel Lounge

47. 'Winter' by The Rolling Stones

48. 'The Snow Is Dancing' by Claude Debussy

49. 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Randall Thompson

50. 'Frosty the Snowman' by Gene Autry