Ax 3 Domaines, 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 43% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−15%
The trend: from 2.2 m88 in to 1.9 m75 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−45 days
The trend: from 147 to 102. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−37 days
The trend: from 78 to 41. 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−11%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.0 m77 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
1.1 m44 in
Now
90.267 cm36 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−29 days
Then
142
Now
114
- Days with a base in the village−21 days
Then
74
Now
52
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-5°C24°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/513.0 m116 in1951/522.2 m85 in1952/531.7 m65 in1953/542.3 m90 in1954/551.2 m46 in1955/561.5 m59 in1956/571.7 m67 in1957/582.4 m96 in1958/592.5 m97 in1959/601.9 m74 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m99 in1961/621.8 m70 in1962/632.3 m90 in1963/641.2 m48 in1964/652.3 m92 in1965/661.9 m76 in1966/672.3 m89 in1967/682.3 m92 in1968/692.4 m93 in1969/703.0 m117 in
- 1970s1970/712.5 m96 in1971/723.7 m145 in1972/732.1 m81 in1973/742.7 m104 in1974/751.7 m68 in1975/762.0 m80 in1976/771.9 m73 in1977/783.0 m119 in1978/792.5 m99 in1979/801.9 m76 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m131 in1981/822.3 m92 in1982/832.1 m81 in1983/841.8 m70 in1984/851.5 m59 in1985/862.6 m102 in1986/872.0 m78 in1987/881.9 m75 in1988/891.5 m58 in1989/901.1 m44 in
- 1990s1990/912.3 m89 in1991/922.1 m83 in1992/931.7 m65 in1993/942.5 m98 in1994/951.9 m73 in1995/962.1 m83 in1996/971.7 m69 in1997/981.3 m52 in1998/992.4 m93 in1999/001.6 m64 in
- 2000s2000/011.9 m76 in2001/022.1 m83 in2002/032.4 m93 in2003/042.8 m108 in2004/052.7 m108 in2005/061.8 m71 in2006/071.5 m57 in2007/081.4 m54 in2008/092.9 m115 in2009/102.1 m81 in
- 2010s2010/111.2 m45 in2011/121.7 m65 in2012/133.2 m124 in2013/142.6 m103 in2014/152.3 m89 in2015/161.7 m67 in2016/172.0 m78 in2017/182.8 m109 in2018/191.6 m61 in2019/201.6 m62 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m58 in2021/222.0 m79 in2022/2391 cm36 in2023/241.4 m57 in2024/251.4 m56 in2025/262.8 m109 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