SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

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

Painting of Bödele
Average winter
2.1 m82 in
Snowiest winter
4.1 m161 in
Leanest winter
82 cm32 in
Powder days a winter
4

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 75% of 736 resorts

+2.5°C+4.6°F

The trend: from -5°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-6°21°-4°25°-2°28°

Snowfall at the summit

−29%

The trend: from 2.4 m96 in to 1.7 m69 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

−2 days

The trend: from 5 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.

0510

Days with a base at the summit

−18 days

The trend: from 154 to 136. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

Days with a base in the village

−55 days

The trend: from 136 to 81. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150200

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−18%

Then

2.3 m90 in

Now

1.9 m74 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

4

Now

3

Days with a base at the summit−11 days

Then

152

Now

141

Days with a base in the village−33 days

Then

126

Now

94

Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F

Then

-4°C25°F

Now

-2°C28°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
29 cm11 in
Snowiest winter
4.1 m161 in
Leanest winter
82 cm32 in
Deepest snow on the ground
275 cm108 in
Coldest night at the summit
-33°C-28°F
Strongest gust at the summit
126 km/h78 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