SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

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

Painting of Bardonecchia
Average winter
3.6 m142 in
Snowiest winter
5.6 m219 in
Leanest winter
1.9 m74 in
Powder days a winter
10

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 45% of 736 resorts

+2.0°C+3.7°F

The trend: from -9°C16°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°

Snowfall at the summit

−3%

The trend: from 3.7 m144 in to 3.5 m139 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 10 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.

05101520

Days with a base at the summit

−4 days

The trend: from 170 to 166. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−5 days

The trend: from 63 to 59. Point at a winter to read it.

4050607080

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

3.7 m146 in

Now

3.5 m139 in

Snowfall in the village−21%

Then

1.9 m76 in

Now

1.5 m60 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

10

Now

10

Days with a base at the summit−3 days

Then

170

Now

167

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F

Then

-9°C17°F

Now

-7°C19°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
60 cm24 in
Snowiest winter
5.6 m219 in
Leanest winter
1.9 m74 in
Deepest snow on the ground
276 cm109 in
Coldest night at the summit
-35°C-31°F
Strongest gust at the summit
166 km/h103 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