76 winters, day by day
Cima Piazzi – San Colombano, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Cima Piazzi – San Colombano, Italy. 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 54% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 3.2 m124 in to 2.9 m114 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 7 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 174 to 167. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 65 to 59. 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−5%
Then
3.2 m124 in
Now
3.0 m119 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
1.6 m65 in
Now
1.3 m51 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
174
Now
170
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°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
- 1950s1950/515.3 m210 in1951/523.6 m141 in1952/532.5 m100 in1953/541.9 m76 in1954/553.1 m120 in1955/562.3 m90 in1956/571.9 m76 in1957/583.3 m130 in1958/592.8 m110 in1959/603.8 m148 in
- 1960s1960/613.4 m134 in1961/623.5 m138 in1962/633.1 m122 in1963/643.4 m132 in1964/652.3 m92 in1965/663.2 m127 in1966/673.7 m146 in1967/683.3 m131 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/703.7 m146 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m114 in1971/723.3 m128 in1972/732.2 m85 in1973/743.2 m125 in1974/753.7 m144 in1975/762.0 m78 in1976/774.6 m179 in1977/783.7 m145 in1978/793.4 m134 in1979/803.1 m122 in
- 1980s1980/812.3 m91 in1981/822.4 m94 in1982/833.5 m139 in1983/842.9 m115 in1984/852.9 m115 in1985/864.2 m165 in1986/872.7 m107 in1987/882.8 m109 in1988/893.2 m125 in1989/902.9 m116 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m117 in1991/923.3 m128 in1992/932.3 m92 in1993/942.6 m101 in1994/952.9 m113 in1995/961.6 m65 in1996/973.1 m123 in1997/982.9 m115 in1998/993.1 m120 in1999/002.9 m115 in
- 2000s2000/015.5 m215 in2001/022.1 m84 in2002/033.7 m147 in2003/043.2 m127 in2004/051.9 m73 in2005/062.4 m95 in2006/071.9 m76 in2007/083.1 m121 in2008/094.1 m161 in2009/102.8 m111 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m99 in2011/122.7 m104 in2012/133.4 m135 in2013/144.2 m164 in2014/153.4 m135 in2015/162.5 m100 in2016/172.2 m86 in2017/183.5 m137 in2018/193.2 m127 in2019/203.9 m155 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m123 in2021/222.3 m91 in2022/232.2 m87 in2023/244.6 m181 in2024/252.1 m81 in2025/261.8 m71 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