Dévoluy, 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 87% of 736 resorts
+2.9°C+5.3°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 3.3 m129 in to 2.7 m106 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 9 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−41 days
The trend: from 123 to 82. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 56 to 45. 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−14%
Then
3.2 m127 in
Now
2.8 m109 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
3.2 m127 in
Now
2.8 m109 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
9
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−27 days
Then
119
Now
92
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.0°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/514.1 m162 in1951/522.3 m90 in1952/532.7 m106 in1953/542.0 m79 in1954/554.4 m171 in1955/562.4 m93 in1956/572.2 m85 in1957/583.2 m124 in1958/592.7 m107 in1959/603.8 m151 in
- 1960s1960/612.9 m115 in1961/623.2 m127 in1962/634.1 m163 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/652.3 m91 in1965/664.7 m186 in1966/673.2 m127 in1967/682.8 m109 in1968/693.2 m125 in1969/704.6 m182 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m130 in1971/723.6 m140 in1972/732.2 m87 in1973/742.9 m114 in1974/753.1 m123 in1975/762.4 m94 in1976/774.0 m157 in1977/784.8 m189 in1978/793.8 m148 in1979/803.8 m149 in
- 1980s1980/813.1 m120 in1981/824.0 m158 in1982/833.0 m116 in1983/843.6 m141 in1984/853.2 m124 in1985/863.8 m150 in1986/872.7 m105 in1987/883.2 m125 in1988/892.6 m101 in1989/902.4 m93 in
- 1990s1990/912.5 m98 in1991/922.2 m86 in1992/931.5 m60 in1993/943.7 m146 in1994/953.5 m136 in1995/962.7 m106 in1996/973.2 m126 in1997/983.1 m121 in1998/993.3 m130 in1999/003.1 m124 in
- 2000s2000/013.3 m128 in2001/021.5 m59 in2002/032.5 m96 in2003/042.7 m104 in2004/052.1 m82 in2005/062.9 m116 in2006/072.0 m78 in2007/083.4 m132 in2008/093.1 m122 in2009/103.3 m130 in
- 2010s2010/112.1 m81 in2011/122.6 m103 in2012/133.4 m132 in2013/143.3 m130 in2014/152.1 m82 in2015/162.4 m95 in2016/172.2 m87 in2017/184.1 m162 in2018/192.6 m100 in2019/203.5 m139 in
- 2020s2020/212.5 m98 in2021/222.1 m83 in2022/231.9 m76 in2023/243.2 m125 in2024/252.7 m105 in2025/263.1 m121 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