76 winters, day by day
Espace Diamant, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Espace Diamant, 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 68% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 4.2 m164 in to 3.7 m147 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 12 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 163 to 156. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 152 to 146. 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
4.1 m159 in
Now
3.7 m147 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.1 m83 in
Now
1.7 m67 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
12
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
163
Now
159
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
153
Now
148
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C22°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 m193 in1951/524.1 m159 in1952/534.1 m161 in1953/542.5 m97 in1954/554.7 m184 in1955/562.6 m102 in1956/572.3 m91 in1957/584.7 m183 in1958/593.3 m128 in1959/603.8 m148 in
- 1960s1960/613.6 m142 in1961/624.2 m165 in1962/634.5 m178 in1963/641.7 m67 in1964/653.4 m134 in1965/666.4 m252 in1966/674.5 m176 in1967/684.1 m161 in1968/693.9 m155 in1969/707.0 m277 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m128 in1971/723.3 m130 in1972/733.4 m134 in1973/743.4 m135 in1974/754.5 m176 in1975/762.8 m108 in1976/774.8 m188 in1977/786.2 m243 in1978/794.2 m165 in1979/805.7 m222 in
- 1980s1980/815.0 m196 in1981/825.5 m217 in1982/835.1 m202 in1983/845.2 m204 in1984/853.5 m139 in1985/864.6 m180 in1986/874.3 m169 in1987/884.9 m193 in1988/893.4 m135 in1989/903.2 m124 in
- 1990s1990/913.1 m120 in1991/923.2 m126 in1992/932.6 m100 in1993/944.9 m192 in1994/955.4 m213 in1995/962.3 m91 in1996/973.9 m154 in1997/983.7 m144 in1998/995.3 m208 in1999/004.4 m172 in
- 2000s2000/014.2 m167 in2001/022.7 m106 in2002/033.4 m134 in2003/043.8 m148 in2004/053.3 m131 in2005/063.6 m140 in2006/072.9 m113 in2007/084.2 m165 in2008/093.7 m147 in2009/103.5 m136 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m90 in2011/124.3 m171 in2012/135.0 m195 in2013/143.5 m137 in2014/153.2 m126 in2015/164.0 m158 in2016/172.8 m111 in2017/185.4 m213 in2018/194.0 m159 in2019/204.6 m181 in
- 2020s2020/213.6 m141 in2021/223.4 m134 in2022/232.8 m110 in2023/244.0 m157 in2024/253.0 m120 in2025/263.4 m134 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