Davos, 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 59% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+4.0°F
The trend: from -13°C9°F to -11°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 3.9 m153 in to 3.6 m140 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 172 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 79 to 72. 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
3.8 m150 in
Now
3.6 m144 in
- Snowfall in the village−12%
Then
2.7 m107 in
Now
2.4 m94 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
170
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-13°C9°F
Now
-11°C12°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
- 1950s1950/515.5 m215 in1951/524.0 m157 in1952/533.5 m137 in1953/542.8 m109 in1954/554.0 m159 in1955/562.8 m111 in1956/572.3 m91 in1957/583.8 m150 in1958/593.0 m119 in1959/604.1 m161 in
- 1960s1960/613.7 m144 in1961/624.1 m160 in1962/633.7 m145 in1963/643.0 m116 in1964/653.7 m147 in1965/664.4 m173 in1966/675.1 m200 in1967/684.3 m167 in1968/692.9 m116 in1969/705.3 m210 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m120 in1971/723.5 m136 in1972/733.2 m126 in1973/743.8 m151 in1974/755.0 m195 in1975/762.5 m99 in1976/775.0 m197 in1977/784.6 m182 in1978/793.9 m153 in1979/804.2 m167 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m128 in1981/823.9 m152 in1982/834.1 m161 in1983/843.8 m151 in1984/853.6 m141 in1985/864.4 m175 in1986/873.5 m139 in1987/883.9 m155 in1988/893.8 m148 in1989/903.3 m131 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m124 in1991/924.7 m183 in1992/933.1 m122 in1993/943.4 m134 in1994/954.4 m172 in1995/962.3 m91 in1996/973.7 m147 in1997/983.9 m152 in1998/994.7 m183 in1999/004.5 m176 in
- 2000s2000/016.0 m235 in2001/023.0 m120 in2002/033.9 m154 in2003/043.8 m150 in2004/052.7 m106 in2005/063.1 m123 in2006/072.7 m107 in2007/084.2 m163 in2008/094.3 m170 in2009/103.3 m129 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m103 in2011/124.0 m159 in2012/133.8 m149 in2013/144.2 m163 in2014/153.8 m150 in2015/163.2 m125 in2016/172.8 m109 in2017/184.1 m160 in2018/194.0 m159 in2019/203.9 m152 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m137 in2021/223.0 m117 in2022/232.9 m114 in2023/245.3 m209 in2024/252.4 m96 in2025/262.3 m92 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