Chamrousse, 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 49% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 4.1 m161 in to 3.6 m143 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 12 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 155 to 148. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−16 days
The trend: from 137 to 121. 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−10%
Then
4.1 m160 in
Now
3.7 m144 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
3.3 m130 in
Now
2.8 m112 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
12
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
156
Now
151
- Days with a base in the village−10 days
Then
136
Now
126
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/515.1 m202 in1951/523.4 m133 in1952/533.5 m137 in1953/542.5 m100 in1954/555.2 m206 in1955/563.0 m117 in1956/572.3 m91 in1957/584.1 m160 in1958/593.5 m137 in1959/604.5 m177 in
- 1960s1960/613.8 m148 in1961/624.1 m160 in1962/634.8 m191 in1963/642.6 m102 in1964/653.2 m127 in1965/665.9 m234 in1966/674.1 m160 in1967/683.7 m146 in1968/694.1 m161 in1969/706.2 m244 in
- 1970s1970/714.0 m158 in1971/724.3 m171 in1972/732.9 m114 in1973/743.5 m139 in1974/754.2 m164 in1975/763.1 m122 in1976/774.9 m193 in1977/786.1 m238 in1978/794.5 m176 in1979/804.7 m186 in
- 1980s1980/814.2 m164 in1981/824.6 m181 in1982/834.3 m167 in1983/844.7 m184 in1984/853.9 m152 in1985/864.9 m192 in1986/873.6 m142 in1987/884.2 m165 in1988/893.4 m133 in1989/903.1 m123 in
- 1990s1990/913.4 m134 in1991/923.0 m119 in1992/932.2 m87 in1993/944.6 m182 in1994/954.9 m192 in1995/963.2 m126 in1996/973.8 m151 in1997/984.1 m161 in1998/994.5 m177 in1999/004.2 m164 in
- 2000s2000/014.8 m187 in2001/022.2 m86 in2002/033.2 m126 in2003/043.4 m135 in2004/053.1 m122 in2005/063.5 m139 in2006/072.8 m109 in2007/084.2 m165 in2008/093.7 m146 in2009/103.9 m155 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m104 in2011/123.9 m152 in2012/134.6 m180 in2013/144.3 m168 in2014/153.1 m120 in2015/163.3 m130 in2016/172.8 m112 in2017/185.2 m204 in2018/193.7 m147 in2019/204.4 m172 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m131 in2021/223.1 m121 in2022/232.5 m99 in2023/244.2 m163 in2024/253.6 m140 in2025/264.0 m156 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