Chabanon, France. 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 97% of 736 resorts
+3.3°C+5.9°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−32%
The trend: from 1.5 m60 in to 1.1 m41 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 3 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−57 days
The trend: from 95 to 38. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 34 to 24. 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−25%
Then
1.5 m59 in
Now
1.1 m44 in
- Snowfall in the village−25%
Then
1.5 m59 in
Now
1.1 m44 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−40 days
Then
89
Now
49
- Average temperature at the summit+2.0°C+3.6°F
Then
-5°C22°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/511.9 m74 in1951/5267 cm26 in1952/531.2 m49 in1953/5499 cm39 in1954/551.5 m58 in1955/561.2 m46 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/581.5 m60 in1958/5995 cm37 in1959/602.2 m86 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m50 in1961/621.6 m63 in1962/632.2 m86 in1963/6472 cm28 in1964/651.1 m43 in1965/661.5 m59 in1966/671.3 m51 in1967/681.1 m41 in1968/691.2 m48 in1969/701.5 m60 in
- 1970s1970/712.1 m81 in1971/722.2 m86 in1972/731.2 m45 in1973/741.8 m70 in1974/751.3 m52 in1975/761.7 m67 in1976/771.8 m72 in1977/782.2 m87 in1978/791.7 m67 in1979/802.0 m79 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m50 in1981/821.8 m72 in1982/831.0 m41 in1983/841.7 m65 in1984/851.6 m63 in1985/861.7 m67 in1986/871.1 m44 in1987/881.0 m40 in1988/891.2 m46 in1989/9059 cm23 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m50 in1991/9277 cm30 in1992/9359 cm23 in1993/941.8 m70 in1994/9597 cm38 in1995/961.4 m54 in1996/971.5 m60 in1997/981.2 m47 in1998/991.4 m56 in1999/0099 cm39 in
- 2000s2000/011.1 m41 in2001/0279 cm31 in2002/031.0 m41 in2003/041.2 m48 in2004/0586 cm34 in2005/061.2 m48 in2006/0740 cm16 in2007/081.2 m49 in2008/092.0 m79 in2009/101.9 m74 in
- 2010s2010/111.0 m40 in2011/1277 cm30 in2012/131.6 m63 in2013/141.7 m67 in2014/1597 cm38 in2015/1688 cm35 in2016/1786 cm34 in2017/181.8 m69 in2018/1969 cm27 in2019/201.0 m40 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m52 in2021/2269 cm27 in2022/2373 cm29 in2023/241.1 m44 in2024/2571 cm28 in2025/261.0 m41 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