76 winters, day by day
Beitostølen Skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Beitostølen Skisenter, Norway. 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 87% of 736 resorts
+2.9°C+5.3°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+27%
The trend: from 2.0 m80 in to 2.6 m102 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 180 to 171. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+10 days
The trend: from 57 to 66. 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
2.1 m82 in
Now
2.4 m96 in
- Snowfall in the village+13%
Then
1.9 m76 in
Now
2.2 m86 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
1
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
178
Now
173
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F
Then
-9°C15°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/512.6 m102 in1951/522.3 m90 in1952/531.5 m59 in1953/541.9 m74 in1954/552.0 m78 in1955/561.4 m53 in1956/571.8 m72 in1957/581.9 m73 in1958/592.0 m79 in1959/602.9 m115 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m85 in1961/622.3 m92 in1962/631.2 m49 in1963/641.1 m45 in1964/652.1 m84 in1965/661.8 m69 in1966/673.0 m117 in1967/682.2 m87 in1968/692.1 m83 in1969/701.8 m72 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m95 in1971/722.3 m89 in1972/731.7 m67 in1973/742.4 m93 in1974/752.4 m95 in1975/762.5 m96 in1976/772.3 m89 in1977/782.7 m104 in1978/792.4 m96 in1979/801.7 m68 in
- 1980s1980/812.0 m79 in1981/822.1 m82 in1982/832.9 m112 in1983/841.9 m76 in1984/852.6 m104 in1985/861.9 m76 in1986/872.4 m94 in1987/882.7 m106 in1988/892.9 m114 in1989/903.5 m139 in
- 1990s1990/911.8 m72 in1991/922.7 m105 in1992/932.7 m104 in1993/942.4 m93 in1994/953.1 m122 in1995/961.2 m49 in1996/971.8 m70 in1997/983.0 m118 in1998/992.4 m93 in1999/002.7 m106 in
- 2000s2000/013.6 m141 in2001/022.3 m90 in2002/031.8 m69 in2003/042.0 m79 in2004/052.2 m86 in2005/062.0 m80 in2006/072.8 m110 in2007/083.4 m135 in2008/092.4 m94 in2009/102.3 m92 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m57 in2011/122.5 m99 in2012/131.9 m75 in2013/143.6 m142 in2014/152.5 m100 in2015/162.6 m102 in2016/172.1 m84 in2017/182.7 m107 in2018/192.1 m82 in2019/203.0 m119 in
- 2020s2020/212.6 m102 in2021/221.6 m64 in2022/233.3 m131 in2023/242.8 m109 in2024/251.8 m71 in2025/262.1 m81 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