Alpe d'Huez, 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 36% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -14°C6°F to -12°C10°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 4.6 m181 in to 4.2 m167 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 14 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 161 to 158. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 72 to 63. 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−7%
Then
4.6 m180 in
Now
4.2 m167 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
3.8 m151 in
Now
3.4 m136 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
13
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
162
Now
160
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+1.9°F
Then
-14°C7°F
Now
-13°C9°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
- 1950s1950/515.6 m222 in1951/524.2 m167 in1952/534.1 m163 in1953/542.8 m110 in1954/555.5 m218 in1955/563.3 m128 in1956/572.7 m104 in1957/584.5 m179 in1958/594.0 m157 in1959/604.6 m181 in
- 1960s1960/614.2 m164 in1961/624.8 m190 in1962/635.1 m201 in1963/642.7 m106 in1964/653.8 m149 in1965/667.0 m276 in1966/674.7 m185 in1967/684.2 m163 in1968/694.6 m180 in1969/707.3 m286 in
- 1970s1970/714.2 m163 in1971/724.4 m171 in1972/733.5 m138 in1973/743.8 m151 in1974/754.9 m192 in1975/763.2 m127 in1976/775.6 m220 in1977/786.9 m272 in1978/795.1 m200 in1979/805.8 m228 in
- 1980s1980/814.9 m193 in1981/825.5 m217 in1982/835.4 m211 in1983/845.4 m211 in1984/854.0 m157 in1985/865.5 m215 in1986/874.6 m179 in1987/885.1 m200 in1988/893.8 m150 in1989/904.0 m157 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m143 in1991/923.6 m143 in1992/932.8 m110 in1993/945.3 m209 in1994/955.9 m233 in1995/963.1 m120 in1996/974.5 m178 in1997/984.4 m172 in1998/995.2 m206 in1999/004.8 m188 in
- 2000s2000/015.6 m221 in2001/022.8 m108 in2002/033.8 m149 in2003/044.1 m160 in2004/053.6 m140 in2005/064.0 m156 in2006/073.3 m129 in2007/084.7 m183 in2008/094.2 m163 in2009/104.3 m167 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m108 in2011/124.8 m189 in2012/135.3 m210 in2013/144.5 m176 in2014/153.6 m143 in2015/164.4 m171 in2016/173.4 m132 in2017/186.1 m241 in2018/194.3 m168 in2019/205.2 m206 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m149 in2021/223.6 m143 in2022/233.3 m130 in2023/245.0 m195 in2024/253.9 m152 in2025/264.2 m165 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