Branäs, 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 97% of 736 resorts
+3.3°C+6.0°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 1.7 m67 in to 1.6 m61 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−58 days
The trend: from 129 to 71. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 47 to 42. 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−6%
Then
1.7 m65 in
Now
1.5 m61 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
91.167 cm36 in
Now
71.367 cm28 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−36 days
Then
118
Now
82
- Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.9°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-4°C25°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m96 in1951/521.2 m45 in1952/531.2 m46 in1953/541.3 m52 in1954/551.6 m61 in1955/561.2 m48 in1956/571.3 m51 in1957/5883 cm33 in1958/591.6 m62 in1959/602.2 m88 in
- 1960s1960/611.9 m73 in1961/622.0 m80 in1962/631.1 m44 in1963/6487 cm34 in1964/651.9 m74 in1965/662.3 m90 in1966/672.5 m98 in1967/681.7 m69 in1968/691.9 m74 in1969/701.8 m69 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m77 in1971/721.9 m76 in1972/731.3 m52 in1973/741.7 m68 in1974/751.8 m71 in1975/761.2 m48 in1976/772.3 m90 in1977/781.8 m72 in1978/791.2 m48 in1979/801.6 m63 in
- 1980s1980/811.4 m54 in1981/822.0 m77 in1982/831.6 m62 in1983/841.3 m52 in1984/852.1 m83 in1985/862.1 m84 in1986/871.7 m65 in1987/882.6 m102 in1988/891.5 m57 in1989/901.6 m64 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m61 in1991/921.4 m55 in1992/931.6 m63 in1993/941.9 m73 in1994/952.4 m95 in1995/9663 cm25 in1996/971.4 m56 in1997/981.6 m64 in1998/992.0 m78 in1999/001.9 m75 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m66 in2001/021.5 m58 in2002/031.4 m57 in2003/041.5 m59 in2004/051.1 m42 in2005/061.7 m66 in2006/071.2 m46 in2007/082.1 m83 in2008/091.6 m61 in2009/101.3 m51 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m52 in2011/121.2 m49 in2012/131.0 m41 in2013/142.3 m89 in2014/151.7 m66 in2015/161.4 m53 in2016/171.5 m60 in2017/181.9 m75 in2018/191.5 m61 in2019/201.7 m67 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m64 in2021/221.2 m47 in2022/232.0 m79 in2023/241.8 m70 in2024/251.1 m44 in2025/261.2 m48 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