SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Aprica, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Aprica
Average winter
3.1 m122 in
Snowiest winter
6.5 m254 in
Leanest winter
1.7 m65 in
Powder days a winter
8

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 99% of 736 resorts

+3.5°C+6.4°F

The trend: from -10°C15°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-12°10°-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−17%

The trend: from 3.4 m133 in to 2.8 m110 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.

05101520

Days with a base at the summit

−47 days

The trend: from 164 to 117. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−7 days

The trend: from 54 to 47. Point at a winter to read it.

406080

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−12%

Then

3.4 m132 in

Now

3.0 m117 in

Snowfall in the village−36%

Then

1.2 m47 in

Now

77.133 cm30 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

9

Now

8

Days with a base at the summit−29 days

Then

155

Now

126

Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.9°F

Then

-9°C16°F

Now

-7°C20°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
55 cm22 in
Snowiest winter
6.5 m254 in
Leanest winter
1.7 m65 in
Deepest snow on the ground
266 cm105 in
Coldest night at the summit
-42°C-44°F
Strongest gust at the summit
107 km/h67 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