76 winters, day by day
Brighton Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Brighton Resort, United States. 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 18% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.8°F
The trend: from -11°C13°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−20%
The trend: from 3.3 m129 in to 2.6 m104 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 6 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 157 to 145. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 67 to 58. 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−13%
Then
3.1 m123 in
Now
2.7 m107 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
5
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
151
Now
147
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-10°C15°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
- 1950s1950/513.5 m137 in1951/524.3 m170 in1952/533.5 m137 in1953/542.9 m114 in1954/552.6 m101 in1955/563.3 m131 in1956/573.3 m131 in1957/583.5 m136 in1958/593.0 m119 in1959/602.5 m97 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m85 in1961/623.5 m137 in1962/632.7 m104 in1963/642.7 m107 in1964/653.7 m146 in1965/662.2 m87 in1966/673.3 m129 in1967/683.3 m131 in1968/693.8 m148 in1969/703.0 m118 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m124 in1971/722.8 m109 in1972/733.1 m123 in1973/743.5 m139 in1974/753.2 m127 in1975/762.7 m107 in1976/771.2 m46 in1977/783.8 m151 in1978/793.3 m130 in1979/804.1 m163 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m85 in1981/824.0 m158 in1982/834.0 m156 in1983/844.9 m193 in1984/852.9 m114 in1985/864.3 m170 in1986/871.9 m74 in1987/882.4 m94 in1988/893.2 m126 in1989/902.2 m88 in
- 1990s1990/913.1 m120 in1991/921.7 m65 in1992/933.7 m147 in1993/942.1 m84 in1994/953.2 m125 in1995/963.4 m133 in1996/973.8 m151 in1997/983.2 m124 in1998/992.7 m107 in1999/002.5 m98 in
- 2000s2000/012.2 m85 in2001/022.3 m89 in2002/032.1 m82 in2003/042.7 m105 in2004/052.9 m112 in2005/063.4 m132 in2006/072.0 m80 in2007/083.1 m122 in2008/093.3 m128 in2009/102.3 m89 in
- 2010s2010/114.4 m174 in2011/122.0 m79 in2012/132.3 m89 in2013/142.5 m98 in2014/151.9 m73 in2015/162.7 m107 in2016/174.0 m159 in2017/181.9 m75 in2018/193.4 m133 in2019/202.5 m100 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m81 in2021/222.1 m81 in2022/234.5 m176 in2023/243.2 m127 in2024/252.5 m98 in2025/261.6 m63 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