76 winters, day by day
Brandnertal – Brand/Bürserberg, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Brandnertal – Brand/Bürserberg, 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°C18°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 4.5 m178 in to 3.9 m154 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 12 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−18 days
The trend: from 162 to 144. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 77 to 70. 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
4.4 m172 in
Now
4.0 m158 in
- Snowfall in the village−23%
Then
2.0 m80 in
Now
1.6 m62 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
11
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
159
Now
148
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s1950/515.4 m211 in1951/524.2 m167 in1952/534.4 m173 in1953/543.4 m133 in1954/554.8 m190 in1955/563.4 m135 in1956/572.7 m106 in1957/584.4 m172 in1958/593.3 m129 in1959/604.2 m165 in
- 1960s1960/613.6 m141 in1961/624.7 m184 in1962/634.4 m171 in1963/642.5 m100 in1964/654.8 m187 in1965/665.3 m207 in1966/676.4 m250 in1967/684.9 m194 in1968/693.6 m142 in1969/706.5 m257 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m124 in1971/723.4 m135 in1972/734.3 m170 in1973/744.8 m189 in1974/756.0 m234 in1975/763.2 m125 in1976/775.2 m204 in1977/785.2 m203 in1978/794.0 m156 in1979/805.5 m217 in
- 1980s1980/814.5 m177 in1981/825.5 m217 in1982/834.6 m182 in1983/844.5 m178 in1984/854.0 m156 in1985/864.6 m181 in1986/874.6 m180 in1987/885.2 m204 in1988/894.1 m162 in1989/903.4 m133 in
- 1990s1990/913.1 m122 in1991/925.3 m207 in1992/933.7 m147 in1993/944.1 m161 in1994/955.3 m209 in1995/962.9 m115 in1996/974.1 m163 in1997/984.0 m157 in1998/996.0 m237 in1999/005.9 m231 in
- 2000s2000/015.5 m216 in2001/023.6 m141 in2002/033.5 m137 in2003/044.3 m169 in2004/053.6 m143 in2005/063.8 m151 in2006/073.2 m125 in2007/085.0 m198 in2008/094.8 m188 in2009/103.3 m128 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m101 in2011/125.2 m204 in2012/134.0 m157 in2013/143.5 m139 in2014/153.9 m152 in2015/163.6 m140 in2016/173.2 m128 in2017/184.5 m178 in2018/194.8 m189 in2019/203.7 m144 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m152 in2021/223.5 m136 in2022/233.2 m126 in2023/245.3 m207 in2024/252.6 m102 in2025/262.8 m108 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