SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Domaine Autrans - Méaudre, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Domaine Autrans - Méaudre
Average winter
1.1 m43 in
Snowiest winter
2.1 m81 in
Leanest winter
25 cm10 in
Powder days a winter
1

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 85% of 736 resorts

+2.9°C+5.2°F

The trend: from -4°C24°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-6°21°-4°25°-2°28°0°32°

Snowfall at the summit

−25%

The trend: from 1.2 m49 in to 93 cm37 in. Point at a winter to read it.

50 cm20 in1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in2.0 m79 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.

0246

Days with a base at the summit

−29 days

The trend: from 36 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.

050100

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 30 to 21. Point at a winter to read it.

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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−17%

Then

1.2 m46 in

Now

97.567 cm38 in

Snowfall in the village−19%

Then

1.1 m43 in

Now

88.367 cm35 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

2

Now

2

Days with a base at the summit−15 days

Then

27

Now

12

Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.1°F

Then

-4°C26°F

Now

-2°C29°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

Most snow in a day
29 cm11 in
Snowiest winter
2.1 m81 in
Leanest winter
25 cm10 in
Deepest snow on the ground
109 cm43 in
Coldest night at the summit
-31°C-24°F
Strongest gust at the summit
114 km/h71 mph

All winters

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