76 winters, day by day
Albiez-Montrond, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Albiez-Montrond, France. 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 44% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 4.5 m178 in to 4.1 m163 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 13 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 168 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 71 to 61. 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−8%
Then
4.5 m176 in
Now
4.1 m162 in
- Snowfall in the village−12%
Then
3.5 m137 in
Now
3.0 m120 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
13
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
168
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/515.5 m215 in1951/524.1 m159 in1952/534.0 m158 in1953/542.7 m107 in1954/555.5 m215 in1955/563.2 m124 in1956/572.6 m102 in1957/584.5 m177 in1958/593.8 m151 in1959/604.6 m181 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m160 in1961/624.8 m188 in1962/635.0 m198 in1963/642.5 m100 in1964/653.8 m148 in1965/666.9 m272 in1966/674.6 m182 in1967/684.1 m160 in1968/694.5 m175 in1969/707.2 m283 in
- 1970s1970/714.1 m160 in1971/724.3 m168 in1972/733.4 m135 in1973/743.8 m148 in1974/754.9 m191 in1975/763.2 m126 in1976/775.4 m213 in1977/786.9 m270 in1978/795.0 m198 in1979/805.7 m226 in
- 1980s1980/814.8 m188 in1981/825.5 m217 in1982/835.2 m206 in1983/845.3 m209 in1984/853.9 m154 in1985/865.3 m209 in1986/874.5 m175 in1987/885.0 m196 in1988/893.7 m145 in1989/903.9 m154 in
- 1990s1990/913.5 m137 in1991/923.5 m139 in1992/932.6 m104 in1993/945.2 m206 in1994/955.7 m226 in1995/963.0 m118 in1996/974.4 m173 in1997/984.2 m165 in1998/995.2 m203 in1999/004.7 m185 in
- 2000s2000/015.5 m215 in2001/022.7 m106 in2002/033.7 m147 in2003/044.0 m159 in2004/053.5 m138 in2005/063.8 m151 in2006/073.2 m127 in2007/084.6 m180 in2008/094.0 m158 in2009/104.2 m164 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m106 in2011/124.7 m184 in2012/135.2 m204 in2013/144.4 m172 in2014/153.5 m137 in2015/164.2 m167 in2016/173.2 m127 in2017/186.1 m239 in2018/194.2 m164 in2019/205.1 m201 in
- 2020s2020/213.7 m147 in2021/223.6 m140 in2022/233.2 m124 in2023/244.7 m185 in2024/253.7 m146 in2025/264.1 m163 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