76 winters, day by day
Espace Haute Maurienne Vanoise, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Espace Haute Maurienne Vanoise, 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 27% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.2°F
The trend: from -11°C13°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 4.3 m169 in to 4.3 m168 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 11 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 172 to 169. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 168 to 161. 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−3%
Then
4.3 m170 in
Now
4.2 m165 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
1.9 m73 in
Now
1.6 m62 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
11
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
172
Now
170
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
168
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/515.2 m204 in1951/523.8 m151 in1952/533.2 m126 in1953/542.9 m114 in1954/555.5 m218 in1955/563.4 m132 in1956/572.9 m114 in1957/584.3 m168 in1958/594.4 m174 in1959/604.8 m189 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m154 in1961/625.3 m208 in1962/635.3 m210 in1963/643.2 m126 in1964/652.6 m102 in1965/666.1 m240 in1966/674.0 m158 in1967/683.6 m142 in1968/694.8 m188 in1969/705.7 m224 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m154 in1971/724.6 m180 in1972/733.3 m131 in1973/744.4 m174 in1974/754.1 m160 in1975/763.0 m117 in1976/775.7 m224 in1977/786.3 m246 in1978/794.6 m181 in1979/805.3 m207 in
- 1980s1980/814.6 m180 in1981/824.7 m186 in1982/835.6 m220 in1983/844.5 m178 in1984/853.5 m138 in1985/865.5 m218 in1986/873.9 m155 in1987/884.8 m189 in1988/893.6 m143 in1989/904.4 m172 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m143 in1991/923.0 m120 in1992/933.9 m154 in1993/944.5 m176 in1994/956.0 m236 in1995/963.5 m136 in1996/974.6 m182 in1997/984.0 m156 in1998/994.2 m165 in1999/004.0 m159 in
- 2000s2000/015.3 m207 in2001/022.9 m115 in2002/033.6 m143 in2003/044.3 m170 in2004/053.1 m120 in2005/063.5 m139 in2006/073.1 m123 in2007/084.0 m158 in2008/095.2 m204 in2009/104.2 m167 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m122 in2011/124.7 m186 in2012/134.9 m192 in2013/144.3 m168 in2014/154.1 m161 in2015/164.1 m160 in2016/174.1 m163 in2017/186.4 m253 in2018/194.0 m156 in2019/205.6 m222 in
- 2020s2020/213.4 m133 in2021/223.3 m131 in2022/233.7 m146 in2023/245.9 m233 in2024/254.3 m168 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