Brauneck, Germany. 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 94% of 736 resorts
+3.1°C+5.6°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−25%
The trend: from 2.5 m100 in to 1.9 m76 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−58 days
The trend: from 106 to 48. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 57 to 45. 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−17%
Then
2.4 m95 in
Now
2.0 m79 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
2.4 m95 in
Now
2.0 m79 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−33 days
Then
95
Now
62
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.3°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-4°C24°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m105 in1951/522.3 m89 in1952/532.6 m102 in1953/542.0 m78 in1954/552.3 m92 in1955/562.1 m83 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/582.7 m105 in1958/591.5 m61 in1959/602.3 m91 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m63 in1961/622.5 m96 in1962/632.5 m96 in1963/641.4 m53 in1964/653.0 m117 in1965/662.4 m93 in1966/673.8 m148 in1967/682.8 m109 in1968/691.9 m76 in1969/703.8 m148 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m80 in1971/721.5 m60 in1972/733.1 m121 in1973/742.8 m109 in1974/752.9 m116 in1975/762.0 m79 in1976/773.0 m116 in1977/782.7 m105 in1978/792.2 m87 in1979/803.3 m130 in
- 1980s1980/812.7 m106 in1981/823.6 m142 in1982/832.2 m87 in1983/842.3 m89 in1984/852.0 m79 in1985/862.4 m93 in1986/872.4 m94 in1987/882.7 m104 in1988/892.1 m84 in1989/901.5 m59 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m57 in1991/922.6 m101 in1992/931.9 m73 in1993/942.1 m82 in1994/952.7 m105 in1995/962.0 m78 in1996/972.0 m77 in1997/981.9 m76 in1998/992.9 m116 in1999/003.3 m129 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m83 in2001/021.9 m74 in2002/031.6 m63 in2003/042.4 m94 in2004/052.4 m93 in2005/062.7 m107 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/082.3 m91 in2008/092.6 m102 in2009/101.7 m66 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m58 in2011/122.5 m97 in2012/132.5 m98 in2013/141.4 m55 in2014/152.0 m80 in2015/161.9 m73 in2016/171.6 m61 in2017/182.2 m85 in2018/192.8 m111 in2019/201.5 m58 in
- 2020s2020/212.0 m77 in2021/221.7 m68 in2022/231.4 m56 in2023/241.9 m75 in2024/251.0 m41 in2025/261.5 m60 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