76 winters, day by day
Brigels-Waltensburg-Andiast, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Brigels-Waltensburg-Andiast, Switzerland. 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 40% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 4.9 m193 in to 4.4 m173 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 12 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 170 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 85 to 75. 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
4.8 m188 in
Now
4.5 m177 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.3 m89 in
Now
1.8 m71 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
12
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
169
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-9°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/517.0 m277 in1951/524.9 m191 in1952/534.3 m170 in1953/543.5 m137 in1954/555.5 m216 in1955/563.5 m137 in1956/572.8 m109 in1957/585.0 m197 in1958/593.9 m154 in1959/604.8 m189 in
- 1960s1960/614.3 m170 in1961/624.8 m190 in1962/634.8 m189 in1963/643.4 m134 in1964/654.3 m168 in1965/665.7 m222 in1966/676.3 m246 in1967/685.4 m213 in1968/693.8 m148 in1969/706.9 m273 in
- 1970s1970/713.7 m144 in1971/724.3 m170 in1972/734.0 m157 in1973/744.7 m184 in1974/756.5 m256 in1975/763.1 m120 in1976/776.3 m246 in1977/785.8 m227 in1978/794.9 m193 in1979/805.3 m209 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m168 in1981/825.2 m206 in1982/835.3 m208 in1983/844.8 m187 in1984/854.3 m168 in1985/865.7 m226 in1986/874.5 m176 in1987/885.1 m202 in1988/894.8 m189 in1989/904.2 m163 in
- 1990s1990/914.0 m159 in1991/925.5 m215 in1992/933.7 m146 in1993/944.5 m178 in1994/955.5 m218 in1995/962.8 m111 in1996/974.5 m179 in1997/985.1 m201 in1998/996.1 m239 in1999/005.4 m214 in
- 2000s2000/017.1 m280 in2001/023.5 m137 in2002/034.7 m186 in2003/044.7 m186 in2004/053.2 m126 in2005/063.9 m153 in2006/073.5 m136 in2007/085.2 m206 in2008/095.3 m209 in2009/104.0 m157 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m112 in2011/125.3 m210 in2012/134.8 m190 in2013/145.0 m197 in2014/154.9 m193 in2015/163.9 m154 in2016/173.6 m140 in2017/185.2 m205 in2018/194.8 m188 in2019/204.5 m179 in
- 2020s2020/214.2 m165 in2021/223.5 m136 in2022/233.5 m139 in2023/246.4 m252 in2024/253.3 m131 in2025/262.9 m115 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