76 winters, day by day
Bergbahnen Werfenweng, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Bergbahnen Werfenweng, Austria. 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 80% of 736 resorts
+2.7°C+4.8°F
The trend: from -8°C17°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 3.9 m155 in to 3.5 m139 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−30 days
The trend: from 160 to 130. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 73 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−7%
Then
3.8 m151 in
Now
3.6 m141 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
2.5 m100 in
Now
2.2 m86 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−18 days
Then
154
Now
137
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/514.1 m162 in1951/524.0 m159 in1952/533.3 m129 in1953/542.9 m112 in1954/554.0 m157 in1955/563.5 m136 in1956/573.2 m126 in1957/583.6 m143 in1958/592.3 m91 in1959/603.8 m149 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m103 in1961/624.4 m172 in1962/633.2 m126 in1963/642.3 m89 in1964/655.1 m201 in1965/664.1 m161 in1966/676.2 m244 in1967/683.8 m150 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/705.1 m200 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m127 in1971/722.6 m103 in1972/734.2 m166 in1973/744.4 m174 in1974/755.2 m203 in1975/763.3 m130 in1976/774.8 m187 in1977/784.3 m168 in1978/793.3 m131 in1979/805.2 m204 in
- 1980s1980/814.1 m162 in1981/825.3 m209 in1982/834.0 m157 in1983/843.7 m146 in1984/853.2 m126 in1985/864.1 m160 in1986/874.4 m174 in1987/884.5 m177 in1988/894.1 m160 in1989/902.6 m102 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/924.8 m188 in1992/933.5 m138 in1993/943.7 m144 in1994/954.6 m180 in1995/963.1 m123 in1996/973.8 m148 in1997/983.8 m151 in1998/994.5 m176 in1999/005.3 m207 in
- 2000s2000/013.8 m148 in2001/023.7 m144 in2002/032.7 m107 in2003/043.9 m153 in2004/053.9 m152 in2005/064.2 m165 in2006/072.8 m111 in2007/084.1 m161 in2008/094.8 m188 in2009/102.7 m106 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m87 in2011/124.5 m176 in2012/133.9 m153 in2013/143.0 m117 in2014/153.4 m132 in2015/162.8 m108 in2016/173.0 m119 in2017/183.9 m154 in2018/195.1 m200 in2019/203.4 m133 in
- 2020s2020/213.2 m127 in2021/223.6 m143 in2022/233.3 m129 in2023/244.0 m158 in2024/252.2 m85 in2025/262.1 m84 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