76 winters, day by day
Beaver Creek, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Beaver Creek, United States. 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 29% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -11°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 3.0 m120 in to 2.8 m111 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 152 to 141. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 80 to 71. 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−5%
Then
3.0 m117 in
Now
2.8 m111 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.1 m82 in
Now
1.8 m71 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
148
Now
144
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-12°C10°F
Now
-11°C12°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
- 1950s1950/513.4 m133 in1951/523.9 m155 in1952/532.9 m114 in1953/542.4 m94 in1954/552.4 m96 in1955/563.3 m130 in1956/573.6 m142 in1957/583.2 m125 in1958/593.1 m124 in1959/602.8 m109 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m99 in1961/623.3 m130 in1962/632.4 m93 in1963/642.6 m102 in1964/653.6 m140 in1965/662.0 m78 in1966/672.8 m112 in1967/682.8 m111 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/703.0 m117 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m117 in1971/722.8 m111 in1972/732.8 m111 in1973/743.4 m133 in1974/753.4 m134 in1975/762.8 m110 in1976/771.9 m73 in1977/783.6 m142 in1978/793.3 m130 in1979/803.6 m140 in
- 1980s1980/811.9 m74 in1981/823.5 m136 in1982/833.2 m127 in1983/844.6 m180 in1984/853.1 m120 in1985/863.3 m130 in1986/872.6 m102 in1987/882.9 m113 in1988/893.2 m127 in1989/903.0 m119 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m113 in1991/922.6 m100 in1992/933.4 m135 in1993/942.5 m98 in1994/953.1 m120 in1995/963.3 m131 in1996/973.4 m133 in1997/982.6 m103 in1998/992.7 m106 in1999/002.7 m104 in
- 2000s2000/012.4 m95 in2001/021.9 m76 in2002/032.8 m111 in2003/042.7 m105 in2004/052.9 m113 in2005/063.0 m116 in2006/072.4 m95 in2007/083.3 m128 in2008/093.4 m133 in2009/102.8 m109 in
- 2010s2010/113.5 m138 in2011/121.9 m76 in2012/132.7 m105 in2013/143.4 m133 in2014/152.6 m103 in2015/163.3 m129 in2016/173.4 m132 in2017/182.7 m105 in2018/193.2 m128 in2019/202.6 m102 in
- 2020s2020/212.4 m95 in2021/223.0 m117 in2022/233.3 m129 in2023/243.2 m125 in2024/252.5 m100 in2025/261.9 m75 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