Bydalsfjällen, 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 80% of 736 resorts
+2.7°C+4.8°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
±0%
The trend: from 1.7 m67 in to 1.7 m67 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
−19 days
The trend: from 159 to 140. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 51 to 50. 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−1%
Then
1.7 m66 in
Now
1.7 m66 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
1.5 m57 in
Now
1.4 m55 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
155
Now
144
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.0°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m78 in1951/521.4 m56 in1952/531.6 m61 in1953/541.0 m41 in1954/551.4 m56 in1955/561.7 m66 in1956/571.2 m48 in1957/581.3 m51 in1958/591.9 m75 in1959/602.1 m81 in
- 1960s1960/611.7 m67 in1961/621.8 m72 in1962/631.2 m48 in1963/641.1 m43 in1964/651.8 m71 in1965/662.3 m92 in1966/672.3 m90 in1967/681.8 m70 in1968/691.7 m67 in1969/701.9 m73 in
- 1970s1970/711.8 m69 in1971/721.5 m58 in1972/731.8 m69 in1973/741.7 m68 in1974/752.1 m83 in1975/762.0 m79 in1976/772.0 m79 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/791.4 m56 in1979/801.3 m49 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m65 in1981/822.1 m81 in1982/831.9 m75 in1983/841.4 m57 in1984/852.1 m82 in1985/861.8 m71 in1986/871.9 m74 in1987/882.5 m100 in1988/891.9 m75 in1989/901.8 m72 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m56 in1991/921.9 m74 in1992/931.6 m63 in1993/941.4 m55 in1994/952.1 m82 in1995/9689 cm35 in1996/971.7 m67 in1997/981.9 m73 in1998/991.9 m73 in1999/001.7 m69 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m83 in2001/021.6 m65 in2002/031.3 m53 in2003/041.2 m47 in2004/051.6 m62 in2005/061.6 m65 in2006/071.5 m58 in2007/082.2 m87 in2008/091.7 m69 in2009/101.5 m57 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m61 in2011/121.8 m70 in2012/131.2 m46 in2013/141.7 m65 in2014/151.7 m67 in2015/161.6 m62 in2016/171.6 m63 in2017/181.9 m75 in2018/191.6 m64 in2019/201.8 m69 in
- 2020s2020/211.9 m74 in2021/221.6 m63 in2022/231.9 m74 in2023/242.1 m84 in2024/251.5 m57 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