76 winters, day by day
Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Crans-Montana, 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 62% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -13°C8°F to -11°C12°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 4.7 m186 in to 4.3 m171 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 13 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 174 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−10 days
The trend: from 171 to 161. 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−6%
Then
4.6 m182 in
Now
4.3 m170 in
- Snowfall in the village−12%
Then
3.5 m139 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
13
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
172
Now
165
- Days with a base in the village−7 days
Then
170
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-13°C9°F
Now
-12°C11°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
- 1950s1950/515.7 m224 in1951/524.8 m191 in1952/534.2 m167 in1953/543.2 m124 in1954/555.5 m215 in1955/563.6 m141 in1956/572.7 m106 in1957/585.1 m201 in1958/594.0 m156 in1959/604.4 m174 in
- 1960s1960/614.4 m174 in1961/624.6 m183 in1962/635.2 m203 in1963/642.8 m109 in1964/654.1 m162 in1965/666.3 m248 in1966/675.3 m209 in1967/684.7 m184 in1968/694.6 m181 in1969/706.7 m262 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m122 in1971/723.9 m152 in1972/733.9 m153 in1973/744.2 m164 in1974/755.6 m222 in1975/763.2 m125 in1976/775.8 m230 in1977/786.1 m242 in1978/794.7 m185 in1979/806.2 m244 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m186 in1981/826.1 m242 in1982/835.6 m219 in1983/844.7 m185 in1984/853.8 m148 in1985/865.5 m215 in1986/875.1 m202 in1987/885.5 m218 in1988/894.5 m178 in1989/904.1 m163 in
- 1990s1990/913.9 m154 in1991/924.7 m185 in1992/934.0 m159 in1993/944.9 m194 in1994/956.3 m246 in1995/962.9 m113 in1996/974.5 m178 in1997/983.9 m155 in1998/996.1 m239 in1999/005.0 m196 in
- 2000s2000/015.3 m207 in2001/023.5 m137 in2002/033.9 m155 in2003/044.5 m176 in2004/053.5 m139 in2005/063.6 m143 in2006/073.5 m138 in2007/084.9 m194 in2008/095.2 m206 in2009/103.4 m134 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m96 in2011/125.1 m200 in2012/134.9 m191 in2013/144.6 m179 in2014/154.4 m174 in2015/164.4 m174 in2016/173.2 m125 in2017/185.9 m232 in2018/195.0 m195 in2019/204.9 m193 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m148 in2021/223.8 m148 in2022/233.5 m137 in2023/246.0 m236 in2024/253.7 m145 in2025/263.2 m128 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