76 winters, day by day
Balderschwang – Hochschelpen/Riedberger Horn, Germany. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Balderschwang – Hochschelpen/Riedberger Horn, Germany. 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 73% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -5°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−21%
The trend: from 3.5 m137 in to 2.7 m108 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 9 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−18 days
The trend: from 152 to 134. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−47 days
The trend: from 143 to 96. 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−13%
Then
3.3 m130 in
Now
2.9 m113 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
3.4 m134 in
Now
3.0 m117 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
8
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
150
Now
139
- Days with a base in the village−28 days
Then
135
Now
108
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/513.8 m148 in1951/523.2 m126 in1952/533.8 m148 in1953/542.6 m100 in1954/553.2 m124 in1955/562.5 m99 in1956/571.8 m70 in1957/583.8 m148 in1958/592.4 m93 in1959/602.6 m101 in
- 1960s1960/612.4 m94 in1961/623.4 m132 in1962/633.6 m141 in1963/641.6 m64 in1964/653.4 m135 in1965/663.9 m152 in1966/674.9 m193 in1967/684.3 m170 in1968/692.9 m113 in1969/705.5 m218 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m94 in1971/722.0 m80 in1972/733.9 m153 in1973/743.8 m150 in1974/754.4 m174 in1975/762.7 m105 in1976/773.7 m147 in1977/784.1 m161 in1978/792.8 m110 in1979/804.0 m158 in
- 1980s1980/814.0 m157 in1981/825.0 m195 in1982/833.7 m144 in1983/843.3 m131 in1984/852.7 m106 in1985/863.5 m139 in1986/873.4 m132 in1987/884.3 m169 in1988/892.9 m112 in1989/901.9 m76 in
- 1990s1990/912.0 m79 in1991/923.5 m137 in1992/932.2 m87 in1993/943.3 m131 in1994/953.6 m142 in1995/962.2 m87 in1996/972.7 m106 in1997/982.7 m108 in1998/994.9 m191 in1999/004.6 m181 in
- 2000s2000/013.3 m130 in2001/022.4 m93 in2002/032.3 m90 in2003/043.2 m127 in2004/053.1 m120 in2005/063.3 m130 in2006/072.0 m78 in2007/083.7 m147 in2008/093.7 m144 in2009/102.5 m97 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m77 in2011/123.8 m151 in2012/133.3 m130 in2013/142.0 m80 in2014/152.8 m112 in2015/162.8 m110 in2016/172.1 m82 in2017/183.1 m122 in2018/193.5 m138 in2019/202.3 m89 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m121 in2021/222.7 m107 in2022/231.7 m65 in2023/242.9 m115 in2024/251.6 m64 in2025/261.9 m76 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