El Colorado, 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 7% of 736 resorts
+1.1°C+2.0°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 3.6 m142 in to 3.3 m128 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 11 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 147 to 145. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−2 days
The trend: from 130 to 128. 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−2%
Then
3.3 m131 in
Now
3.3 m129 in
- Snowfall in the village±0
Then
2.6 m103 in
Now
2.6 m103 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
10
Now
9
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
146
Now
145
- Days with a base in the village−2 days
Then
129
Now
126
- Average temperature at the summit+0.7°C+1.2°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s19501.9 m76 in19514.4 m175 in19522.5 m97 in19534.0 m156 in19545.5 m217 in19551.2 m49 in19563.4 m135 in19574.6 m179 in19582.6 m101 in19594.1 m162 in
- 1960s19603.1 m120 in19613.7 m146 in19623.6 m141 in19634.8 m187 in19642.5 m97 in19653.6 m143 in19663.5 m136 in19672.6 m102 in19681.3 m51 in19693.0 m119 in
- 1970s19701.9 m74 in19712.3 m91 in19724.9 m193 in19733.1 m120 in19743.2 m126 in19752.6 m102 in19763.1 m123 in19775.3 m208 in19785.4 m212 in19792.7 m106 in
- 1980s19803.2 m124 in19812.1 m81 in19828.5 m336 in19834.5 m179 in19846.7 m263 in19852.5 m99 in19863.6 m142 in19876.7 m265 in19882.3 m92 in19893.9 m155 in
- 1990s19902.6 m104 in19914.1 m163 in19923.5 m138 in19932.6 m102 in19942.7 m105 in19953.4 m134 in19961.7 m69 in19976.7 m262 in19981.1 m43 in19993.7 m145 in
- 2000s20004.8 m189 in20014.0 m158 in20024.8 m189 in20032.2 m88 in20043.0 m119 in20055.1 m200 in20065.1 m201 in20073.5 m136 in20083.3 m130 in20094.1 m162 in
- 2010s20102.4 m94 in20113.2 m125 in20122.2 m87 in20132.4 m96 in20143.0 m119 in20154.2 m165 in20162.6 m104 in20172.3 m92 in20182.8 m108 in20191.7 m67 in
- 2020s20202.8 m111 in20212.0 m78 in20222.6 m102 in20234.4 m172 in20243.8 m151 in20252.4 m95 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