Auron, 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 71% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.4°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−21%
The trend: from 3.7 m146 in to 2.9 m115 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 12 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−48 days
The trend: from 150 to 102. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 55 to 43. 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−17%
Then
3.7 m146 in
Now
3.1 m122 in
- Snowfall in the village−32%
Then
2.1 m84 in
Now
1.4 m56 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
12
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−30 days
Then
145
Now
115
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-5°C22°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
- 1950s1950/514.7 m183 in1951/522.1 m81 in1952/531.9 m76 in1953/542.3 m91 in1954/553.8 m151 in1955/564.1 m162 in1956/572.9 m113 in1957/583.6 m142 in1958/594.4 m173 in1959/606.1 m241 in
- 1960s1960/612.8 m109 in1961/624.5 m175 in1962/634.7 m186 in1963/643.6 m140 in1964/652.2 m87 in1965/663.4 m135 in1966/672.6 m103 in1967/682.8 m108 in1968/693.9 m152 in1969/703.7 m146 in
- 1970s1970/714.8 m190 in1971/725.1 m199 in1972/732.6 m104 in1973/744.6 m181 in1974/753.3 m130 in1975/763.7 m147 in1976/774.8 m188 in1977/785.2 m203 in1978/794.2 m165 in1979/803.1 m123 in
- 1980s1980/812.8 m111 in1981/823.3 m128 in1982/833.5 m139 in1983/843.3 m130 in1984/853.4 m133 in1985/864.9 m193 in1986/872.8 m111 in1987/883.0 m117 in1988/892.5 m100 in1989/902.1 m81 in
- 1990s1990/913.1 m122 in1991/922.0 m77 in1992/932.6 m104 in1993/943.0 m116 in1994/952.0 m80 in1995/964.1 m162 in1996/973.7 m145 in1997/983.3 m130 in1998/992.5 m100 in1999/002.4 m95 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m182 in2001/022.1 m83 in2002/033.3 m128 in2003/043.5 m137 in2004/051.9 m73 in2005/062.1 m83 in2006/071.3 m51 in2007/083.3 m128 in2008/095.2 m206 in2009/104.0 m156 in
- 2010s2010/113.6 m141 in2011/122.2 m88 in2012/134.2 m166 in2013/144.8 m188 in2014/153.0 m117 in2015/162.1 m82 in2016/172.8 m109 in2017/184.7 m184 in2018/192.6 m100 in2019/203.3 m130 in
- 2020s2020/212.8 m111 in2021/221.8 m72 in2022/231.9 m76 in2023/244.1 m162 in2024/252.9 m113 in2025/263.0 m117 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