76 winters, day by day
Borgafjällbackarna, Sweden. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Borgafjällbackarna, Sweden. 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 77% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.7°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+12%
The trend: from 2.6 m102 in to 2.9 m114 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 176 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+8 days
The trend: from 68 to 76. 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+8%
Then
2.6 m102 in
Now
2.8 m111 in
- Snowfall in the village+4%
Then
2.1 m81 in
Now
2.1 m84 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
172
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/512.5 m97 in1951/522.9 m115 in1952/533.2 m124 in1953/541.8 m71 in1954/552.7 m108 in1955/562.4 m93 in1956/572.1 m82 in1957/582.0 m77 in1958/592.4 m95 in1959/602.7 m105 in
- 1960s1960/613.3 m129 in1961/622.6 m103 in1962/631.8 m71 in1963/642.0 m78 in1964/652.8 m109 in1965/662.3 m90 in1966/673.2 m125 in1967/682.8 m111 in1968/692.3 m91 in1969/702.1 m84 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m126 in1971/722.9 m113 in1972/733.7 m146 in1973/742.7 m106 in1974/753.1 m122 in1975/763.1 m124 in1976/772.4 m93 in1977/782.8 m112 in1978/792.2 m88 in1979/802.2 m86 in
- 1980s1980/812.8 m109 in1981/822.5 m99 in1982/832.8 m111 in1983/842.7 m108 in1984/852.4 m95 in1985/862.2 m86 in1986/872.7 m105 in1987/883.4 m132 in1988/893.7 m147 in1989/903.6 m142 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m111 in1991/923.5 m136 in1992/933.7 m144 in1993/942.5 m97 in1994/953.4 m135 in1995/961.2 m49 in1996/973.8 m150 in1997/983.2 m124 in1998/992.5 m98 in1999/002.8 m109 in
- 2000s2000/012.8 m112 in2001/023.1 m121 in2002/032.6 m103 in2003/042.7 m107 in2004/052.7 m105 in2005/062.1 m81 in2006/073.2 m125 in2007/083.1 m120 in2008/092.5 m100 in2009/102.5 m97 in
- 2010s2010/112.1 m82 in2011/123.3 m130 in2012/132.1 m83 in2013/143.3 m131 in2014/154.0 m156 in2015/162.5 m99 in2016/173.0 m118 in2017/182.9 m113 in2018/192.4 m94 in2019/203.6 m141 in
- 2020s2020/212.8 m111 in2021/222.7 m107 in2022/232.3 m92 in2023/242.8 m111 in2024/252.8 m108 in2025/262.4 m95 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