3-5 Pigadia, Greece. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Every day of every winter
Each row is a winter, oldest at the top. Each column is a day, from the start of the season to the end. The darker the blue, the more snow fell that day.
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Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 21% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.9°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−39%
The trend: from 95 cm37 in to 58 cm23 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 17 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 21 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Each dot is one winter. The curve is a running average over about ten winters; the dotted line is the straight trend through all of them, and the changes above are measured along it. One winter is weather; the trend is climate.
Then and now
Then 1950/51–1979/80Now 1996/97–2025/26
- Snowfall at the summit−24%
Then
82.067 cm32 in
Now
62.767 cm25 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
81.033 cm32 in
Now
61.733 cm24 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
12
Now
5
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.7°F
Then
-3°C26°F
Now
-2°C28°F
Averages per winter over the first and last 30 winters. A powder day brings 10 cm4 in or more of new snow; a base is 30 cm12 in or more on the ground.
Records
All winters
- 1950s1950/5181 cm32 in1951/5244 cm17 in1952/5350 cm20 in1953/541.8 m69 in1954/5573 cm29 in1955/561.4 m56 in1956/5762 cm24 in1957/5836 cm14 in1958/5942 cm17 in1959/6085 cm33 in
- 1960s1960/6161 cm24 in1961/6292 cm36 in1962/631.9 m75 in1963/6453 cm21 in1964/6551 cm20 in1965/6657 cm22 in1966/6775 cm30 in1967/681.0 m41 in1968/691.2 m48 in1969/7070 cm28 in
- 1970s1970/7172 cm28 in1971/721.1 m44 in1972/7399 cm39 in1973/7499 cm39 in1974/7579 cm31 in1975/7693 cm37 in1976/7725 cm10 in1977/7869 cm27 in1978/7963 cm25 in1979/8086 cm34 in
- 1980s1980/811.2 m45 in1981/821.3 m50 in1982/8343 cm17 in1983/842.0 m77 in1984/8588 cm35 in1985/8689 cm35 in1986/871.4 m54 in1987/8824 cm9 in1988/891.3 m50 in1989/9026 cm10 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m42 in1991/9228 cm11 in1992/9379 cm31 in1993/941.1 m45 in1994/9598 cm39 in1995/9687 cm34 in1996/9755 cm22 in1997/9867 cm26 in1998/991.5 m57 in1999/0064 cm25 in
- 2000s2000/0148 cm19 in2001/0291 cm36 in2002/031.1 m43 in2003/041.1 m43 in2004/0567 cm26 in2005/0691 cm36 in2006/079 cm4 in2007/0826 cm10 in2008/0973 cm29 in2009/101.2 m47 in
- 2010s2010/1151 cm20 in2011/121.3 m50 in2012/1339 cm15 in2013/1422 cm9 in2014/1558 cm23 in2015/1619 cm7 in2016/1756 cm22 in2017/1851 cm20 in2018/1963 cm25 in2019/2052 cm20 in
- 2020s2020/2143 cm17 in2021/2299 cm39 in2022/2316 cm6 in2023/2439 cm15 in2024/2557 cm22 in2025/2618 cm7 in
Modelled weather from ERA5 and ERA5-Land, not measured on the slopes. Snow depth is the average over a grid cell about 9 km wide, so it can differ a lot from what the piste report says. How SnowOdds works