76 winters, day by day
Eikedalen skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Eikedalen skisenter, Norway. 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 99% of 736 resorts
+3.5°C+6.4°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+10%
The trend: from 6.4 m254 in to 7.1 m278 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 23 to 27. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−17 days
The trend: from 166 to 148. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 86 to 86. 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+8%
Then
6.3 m246 in
Now
6.8 m266 in
- Snowfall in the village−6%
Then
4.3 m170 in
Now
4.1 m160 in
- Powder days at the summit+3 days
Then
22
Now
25
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
161
Now
151
- Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+3.9°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/514.9 m192 in1951/527.3 m288 in1952/536.6 m261 in1953/545.5 m216 in1954/555.8 m228 in1955/565.5 m215 in1956/578.1 m318 in1957/585.7 m226 in1958/594.5 m176 in1959/603.3 m130 in
- 1960s1960/616.0 m237 in1961/628.5 m334 in1962/633.9 m155 in1963/645.0 m195 in1964/656.9 m271 in1965/664.7 m185 in1966/6710.2 m402 in1967/687.4 m291 in1968/694.7 m184 in1969/705.6 m222 in
- 1970s1970/717.2 m283 in1971/725.7 m226 in1972/738.9 m349 in1973/747.1 m278 in1974/758.6 m337 in1975/769.2 m361 in1976/774.2 m165 in1977/784.7 m186 in1978/796.6 m261 in1979/805.5 m218 in
- 1980s1980/818.5 m333 in1981/826.1 m241 in1982/8310.2 m401 in1983/847.0 m275 in1984/855.2 m204 in1985/865.6 m222 in1986/876.5 m256 in1987/884.6 m180 in1988/8910.7 m420 in1989/9011.5 m451 in
- 1990s1990/915.5 m216 in1991/929.1 m357 in1992/9311.0 m433 in1993/948.6 m338 in1994/9510.4 m408 in1995/962.4 m95 in1996/979.2 m363 in1997/985.3 m208 in1998/998.6 m339 in1999/0010.7 m421 in
- 2000s2000/013.7 m147 in2001/027.9 m310 in2002/034.4 m172 in2003/045.2 m203 in2004/058.6 m339 in2005/064.3 m170 in2006/079.0 m356 in2007/088.4 m330 in2008/096.4 m252 in2009/103.3 m131 in
- 2010s2010/117.2 m281 in2011/128.7 m341 in2012/135.5 m215 in2013/148.2 m324 in2014/1511.3 m444 in2015/167.7 m302 in2016/177.3 m285 in2017/187.2 m283 in2018/193.8 m148 in2019/209.6 m380 in
- 2020s2020/214.0 m159 in2021/227.1 m278 in2022/235.6 m220 in2023/246.4 m251 in2024/254.3 m169 in2025/263.9 m153 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