SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Andermatt+Disentis+Sedrun, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Andermatt+Disentis+Sedrun
Average winter
5.1 m201 in
Snowiest winter
7.5 m295 in
Leanest winter
3.0 m119 in
Powder days a winter
14

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 26% of 736 resorts

+1.8°C+3.2°F

The trend: from -12°C10°F to -10°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-14°7°-12°10°-10°14°

Snowfall at the summit

−9%

The trend: from 5.3 m210 in to 4.9 m191 in. Point at a winter to read it.

4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in8.0 m315 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 15 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.

01020

Days with a base at the summit

−8 days

The trend: from 175 to 167. Point at a winter to read it.

140150160170180

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 87 to 78. Point at a winter to read it.

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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−5%

Then

5.2 m205 in

Now

4.9 m195 in

Snowfall in the village−16%

Then

2.4 m96 in

Now

2.0 m80 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

14

Now

13

Days with a base at the summit−5 days

Then

174

Now

169

Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F

Then

-12°C11°F

Now

-11°C13°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

Most snow in a day
57 cm22 in
Snowiest winter
7.5 m295 in
Leanest winter
3.0 m119 in
Deepest snow on the ground
397 cm156 in
Coldest night at the summit
-36°C-33°F
Strongest gust at the summit
155 km/h96 mph

All winters

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