SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Berwang, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Berwang
Average winter
2.9 m116 in
Snowiest winter
4.9 m193 in
Leanest winter
1.7 m65 in
Powder days a winter
5

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 84% of 736 resorts

+2.8°C+5.0°F

The trend: from -7°C19°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−20%

The trend: from 3.3 m129 in to 2.6 m102 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

−1 day

The trend: from 6 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.

0510

Days with a base at the summit

−20 days

The trend: from 158 to 139. Point at a winter to read it.

100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−11 days

The trend: from 67 to 56. Point at a winter to read it.

406080

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−14%

Then

3.1 m123 in

Now

2.7 m106 in

Snowfall in the village−22%

Then

2.1 m83 in

Now

1.6 m64 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

6

Now

5

Days with a base at the summit−13 days

Then

156

Now

143

Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F

Then

-6°C21°F

Now

-5°C23°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
34 cm13 in
Snowiest winter
4.9 m193 in
Leanest winter
1.7 m65 in
Deepest snow on the ground
249 cm98 in
Coldest night at the summit
-38°C-37°F
Strongest gust at the summit
139 km/h86 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