76 winters, day by day
Divisadero (Formerly Cerro El Fraile), Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
Divisadero (Formerly Cerro El Fraile), Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 4% of 736 resorts
+0.9°C+1.6°F
The trend: from -4°C24°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 2.7 m107 in to 2.4 m95 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 6 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−30 days
The trend: from 102 to 71. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 53 to 47. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit−9%
Then
2.7 m108 in
Now
2.5 m98 in
- Snowfall in the village−5%
Then
2.5 m98 in
Now
2.4 m93 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
6
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−18 days
Then
96
Now
79
- Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.1°F
Then
-4°C24°F
Now
-4°C25°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
- 1950s19503.0 m118 in19512.8 m109 in19522.3 m92 in19533.6 m141 in19543.0 m118 in19551.9 m74 in19562.1 m81 in19572.6 m101 in19582.7 m105 in19592.6 m101 in
- 1960s19603.2 m124 in19612.7 m104 in19622.2 m86 in19633.2 m127 in19642.4 m93 in19652.5 m97 in19662.2 m88 in19673.6 m142 in19682.1 m81 in19693.9 m153 in
- 1970s19701.9 m76 in19713.2 m126 in19722.4 m95 in19732.6 m101 in19743.4 m135 in19753.9 m155 in19762.4 m94 in19772.6 m102 in19782.6 m102 in19793.1 m121 in
- 1980s19802.7 m106 in19812.0 m77 in19822.2 m88 in19832.5 m98 in19841.5 m60 in19852.2 m87 in19862.5 m98 in19872.0 m78 in19882.2 m86 in19892.4 m93 in
- 1990s19902.3 m91 in19912.8 m109 in19923.2 m126 in19931.3 m51 in19942.7 m104 in19953.2 m127 in19962.1 m82 in19972.5 m96 in19982.6 m100 in19992.4 m96 in
- 2000s20002.5 m98 in20012.4 m93 in20022.6 m102 in20033.2 m126 in20042.3 m92 in20052.1 m81 in20062.3 m92 in20072.8 m112 in20081.8 m69 in20092.5 m97 in
- 2010s20103.2 m125 in20112.4 m95 in20123.5 m138 in20133.0 m120 in20142.0 m77 in20152.1 m84 in20161.3 m52 in20173.6 m140 in20182.8 m109 in20192.2 m85 in
- 2020s20203.0 m120 in20211.8 m72 in20223.2 m126 in20232.8 m110 in20242.2 m86 in20251.6 m63 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