Dombay, Russia. 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 3% of 736 resorts
+0.7°C+1.3°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
±0%
The trend: from 4.7 m183 in to 4.6 m182 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
−2 days
The trend: from 166 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−3 days
The trend: from 163 to 160. 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+1%
Then
4.6 m180 in
Now
4.6 m182 in
- Snowfall in the village−1%
Then
2.8 m111 in
Now
2.8 m110 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
13
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
164
Now
163
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
161
Now
157
- Average temperature at the summit+0.4°C+0.7°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m95 in1951/524.6 m183 in1952/535.1 m202 in1953/545.5 m215 in1954/553.6 m142 in1955/565.9 m234 in1956/574.7 m184 in1957/586.5 m254 in1958/594.2 m163 in1959/604.4 m174 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m154 in1961/624.7 m184 in1962/636.6 m258 in1963/644.3 m167 in1964/654.6 m182 in1965/664.4 m172 in1966/673.8 m150 in1967/686.3 m248 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/705.0 m195 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m154 in1971/724.3 m168 in1972/733.8 m149 in1973/744.2 m167 in1974/754.9 m193 in1975/764.9 m194 in1976/773.3 m130 in1977/784.8 m189 in1978/795.8 m228 in1979/804.1 m159 in
- 1980s1980/814.9 m192 in1981/825.7 m226 in1982/834.5 m178 in1983/844.2 m166 in1984/854.0 m157 in1985/863.6 m140 in1986/877.9 m312 in1987/885.2 m205 in1988/895.8 m229 in1989/905.8 m227 in
- 1990s1990/913.1 m122 in1991/924.0 m157 in1992/935.9 m231 in1993/943.4 m135 in1994/954.8 m188 in1995/963.8 m149 in1996/975.4 m213 in1997/984.4 m174 in1998/993.5 m139 in1999/004.5 m178 in
- 2000s2000/013.6 m140 in2001/025.7 m224 in2002/034.0 m157 in2003/044.5 m176 in2004/055.5 m217 in2005/065.2 m206 in2006/075.5 m215 in2007/085.1 m200 in2008/095.0 m196 in2009/105.6 m220 in
- 2010s2010/114.1 m163 in2011/124.2 m165 in2012/133.9 m154 in2013/143.6 m143 in2014/154.5 m176 in2015/165.2 m204 in2016/174.3 m169 in2017/184.8 m189 in2018/194.3 m171 in2019/203.9 m154 in
- 2020s2020/215.2 m205 in2021/225.1 m202 in2022/233.8 m148 in2023/245.4 m214 in2024/254.1 m162 in2025/264.7 m185 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