Belalp, Switzerland. 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.
Loading the daily snowfall…
Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 32% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -13°C9°F to -11°C12°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−5%
The trend: from 6.1 m239 in to 5.8 m227 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 18 to 18. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 182 to 180. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−10 days
The trend: from 176 to 166. 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−3%
Then
5.9 m233 in
Now
5.7 m226 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
3.8 m149 in
Now
3.2 m126 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
18
Now
18
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
181
Now
181
- Days with a base in the village−6 days
Then
174
Now
168
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.9°F
Then
-12°C10°F
Now
-11°C11°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
- 1950s1950/517.6 m298 in1951/526.5 m257 in1952/535.7 m223 in1953/543.9 m155 in1954/556.9 m270 in1955/564.5 m178 in1956/573.6 m140 in1957/587.0 m276 in1958/594.9 m191 in1959/605.8 m228 in
- 1960s1960/615.2 m205 in1961/626.2 m244 in1962/636.2 m243 in1963/644.4 m171 in1964/655.3 m210 in1965/667.6 m299 in1966/677.1 m280 in1967/686.3 m247 in1968/695.8 m230 in1969/708.7 m342 in
- 1970s1970/714.1 m160 in1971/724.8 m190 in1972/734.9 m193 in1973/745.6 m221 in1974/757.1 m278 in1975/763.8 m149 in1976/777.5 m296 in1977/787.7 m301 in1978/795.7 m224 in1979/807.8 m306 in
- 1980s1980/816.2 m245 in1981/827.1 m280 in1982/837.2 m281 in1983/846.3 m246 in1984/855.1 m200 in1985/867.4 m291 in1986/876.6 m259 in1987/887.3 m289 in1988/896.1 m239 in1989/905.3 m208 in
- 1990s1990/915.2 m204 in1991/926.1 m241 in1992/935.3 m208 in1993/946.4 m252 in1994/958.3 m326 in1995/963.7 m145 in1996/975.9 m234 in1997/985.4 m214 in1998/997.9 m312 in1999/006.6 m260 in
- 2000s2000/017.5 m294 in2001/024.7 m185 in2002/036.6 m259 in2003/045.5 m217 in2004/054.5 m176 in2005/065.0 m195 in2006/074.8 m188 in2007/086.5 m256 in2008/096.2 m245 in2009/104.5 m178 in
- 2010s2010/113.5 m137 in2011/126.3 m248 in2012/136.2 m246 in2013/145.3 m207 in2014/156.3 m249 in2015/165.6 m220 in2016/174.7 m184 in2017/187.1 m279 in2018/196.9 m272 in2019/206.4 m250 in
- 2020s2020/215.0 m195 in2021/224.8 m189 in2022/234.8 m190 in2023/248.6 m337 in2024/254.7 m184 in2025/264.2 m167 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