Engelberg, Switzerland. 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 40% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -12°C11°F to -10°C14°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 5.3 m210 in to 4.8 m188 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 15 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 182 to 180. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−13 days
The trend: from 161 to 148. 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−7%
Then
5.2 m205 in
Now
4.9 m192 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.5 m97 in
Now
2.0 m77 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
14
Now
14
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
181
Now
181
- Days with a base in the village−7 days
Then
159
Now
152
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-11°C11°F
Now
-10°C13°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
- 1950s1950/517.0 m274 in1951/525.5 m215 in1952/534.9 m191 in1953/543.7 m146 in1954/555.7 m225 in1955/563.9 m155 in1956/573.0 m117 in1957/585.7 m224 in1958/594.4 m173 in1959/605.2 m204 in
- 1960s1960/614.6 m180 in1961/625.3 m207 in1962/635.5 m217 in1963/643.7 m147 in1964/654.7 m186 in1965/666.5 m254 in1966/676.5 m255 in1967/686.0 m235 in1968/694.3 m170 in1969/707.8 m305 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m152 in1971/724.5 m178 in1972/734.3 m170 in1973/744.9 m194 in1974/756.8 m268 in1975/763.5 m139 in1976/777.0 m277 in1977/786.4 m251 in1978/795.4 m213 in1979/806.0 m237 in
- 1980s1980/814.9 m193 in1981/826.3 m246 in1982/835.8 m228 in1983/845.0 m197 in1984/854.4 m175 in1985/866.1 m241 in1986/875.1 m201 in1987/885.6 m219 in1988/895.4 m212 in1989/904.3 m169 in
- 1990s1990/914.6 m182 in1991/925.6 m220 in1992/934.0 m156 in1993/945.2 m204 in1994/956.4 m250 in1995/963.3 m130 in1996/974.8 m190 in1997/985.3 m210 in1998/996.9 m272 in1999/005.9 m230 in
- 2000s2000/017.1 m281 in2001/023.6 m143 in2002/035.1 m202 in2003/045.1 m200 in2004/053.7 m146 in2005/064.3 m170 in2006/073.7 m146 in2007/085.5 m215 in2008/095.7 m225 in2009/104.2 m164 in
- 2010s2010/113.0 m117 in2011/125.8 m226 in2012/135.5 m215 in2013/145.0 m195 in2014/155.4 m212 in2015/164.7 m183 in2016/173.8 m150 in2017/185.8 m227 in2018/195.1 m202 in2019/204.7 m184 in
- 2020s2020/214.4 m174 in2021/224.0 m156 in2022/233.8 m150 in2023/246.9 m271 in2024/253.9 m155 in2025/263.5 m136 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