76 winters, day by day
Confin / San Bernardino, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Confin / San Bernardino, Switzerland. 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 65% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 4.2 m163 in to 3.7 m146 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 11 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 176 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−21 days
The trend: from 170 to 149. 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
4.1 m161 in
Now
3.9 m153 in
- Snowfall in the village−5%
Then
4.1 m161 in
Now
3.9 m153 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
10
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
174
Now
166
- Days with a base in the village−13 days
Then
167
Now
155
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-10°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
- 1950s1950/517.1 m280 in1951/524.2 m167 in1952/532.9 m115 in1953/542.8 m112 in1954/554.1 m163 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/572.3 m90 in1957/584.4 m174 in1958/593.7 m146 in1959/605.0 m195 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m162 in1961/624.1 m163 in1962/634.0 m157 in1963/643.8 m148 in1964/653.1 m120 in1965/664.1 m160 in1966/674.7 m185 in1967/684.6 m179 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/705.4 m214 in
- 1970s1970/714.0 m158 in1971/724.5 m178 in1972/732.9 m115 in1973/744.3 m169 in1974/755.5 m216 in1975/762.6 m101 in1976/775.7 m226 in1977/784.9 m191 in1978/794.2 m167 in1979/803.6 m143 in
- 1980s1980/812.8 m110 in1981/823.3 m131 in1982/834.7 m185 in1983/843.8 m150 in1984/854.0 m159 in1985/865.8 m229 in1986/873.2 m127 in1987/883.9 m152 in1988/894.5 m177 in1989/903.6 m143 in
- 1990s1990/913.9 m155 in1991/924.2 m164 in1992/932.5 m99 in1993/943.6 m140 in1994/953.8 m149 in1995/962.2 m87 in1996/974.0 m156 in1997/984.7 m184 in1998/994.2 m164 in1999/003.9 m153 in
- 2000s2000/017.6 m298 in2001/022.4 m93 in2002/034.4 m173 in2003/044.2 m165 in2004/052.2 m88 in2005/062.8 m108 in2006/072.8 m111 in2007/084.3 m169 in2008/095.4 m211 in2009/103.9 m153 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m122 in2011/123.5 m138 in2012/134.4 m172 in2013/145.5 m216 in2014/154.6 m182 in2015/163.1 m123 in2016/173.3 m130 in2017/184.8 m188 in2018/193.8 m148 in2019/204.5 m176 in
- 2020s2020/213.7 m146 in2021/222.4 m94 in2022/232.4 m96 in2023/245.5 m215 in2024/252.8 m111 in2025/262.4 m96 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