76 winters, day by day
Espace Cambre d'Aze, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Espace Cambre d'Aze, France. 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 -4°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 2.2 m87 in to 1.9 m76 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−22 days
The trend: from 50 to 28. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 53 to 46. 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
2.2 m86 in
Now
2.0 m79 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
1.1 m43 in
Now
89.8 cm35 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−12 days
Then
48
Now
36
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/513.0 m119 in1951/522.1 m83 in1952/531.5 m58 in1953/542.3 m90 in1954/551.3 m52 in1955/561.7 m68 in1956/571.6 m62 in1957/582.1 m81 in1958/593.0 m120 in1959/601.8 m71 in
- 1960s1960/612.3 m91 in1961/621.9 m76 in1962/632.2 m87 in1963/641.3 m51 in1964/652.2 m88 in1965/661.9 m76 in1966/672.2 m85 in1967/682.1 m82 in1968/692.9 m116 in1969/702.7 m104 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m92 in1971/723.5 m139 in1972/731.8 m72 in1973/742.8 m111 in1974/751.7 m65 in1975/761.9 m73 in1976/771.9 m76 in1977/782.9 m115 in1978/792.6 m102 in1979/801.8 m72 in
- 1980s1980/813.2 m127 in1981/822.8 m112 in1982/831.8 m72 in1983/842.0 m78 in1984/851.4 m54 in1985/862.6 m104 in1986/871.9 m73 in1987/881.8 m70 in1988/891.4 m56 in1989/901.1 m41 in
- 1990s1990/912.1 m82 in1991/922.3 m90 in1992/931.9 m74 in1993/942.2 m85 in1994/951.5 m57 in1995/962.3 m90 in1996/972.2 m88 in1997/981.3 m53 in1998/992.4 m93 in1999/001.6 m64 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m69 in2001/022.3 m89 in2002/032.4 m94 in2003/042.7 m106 in2004/052.3 m90 in2005/062.0 m80 in2006/071.4 m53 in2007/081.4 m55 in2008/093.1 m121 in2009/102.1 m84 in
- 2010s2010/111.2 m49 in2011/121.6 m61 in2012/132.8 m111 in2013/142.4 m93 in2014/152.1 m82 in2015/161.7 m68 in2016/172.0 m79 in2017/183.0 m119 in2018/191.4 m56 in2019/202.3 m89 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m62 in2021/222.1 m81 in2022/2395 cm37 in2023/241.3 m53 in2024/251.4 m56 in2025/263.1 m122 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