76 winters, day by day
Estació d'esquí de Port-Ainé, Spain. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Estació d'esquí de Port-Ainé, Spain. 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 74% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 2.3 m91 in to 2.1 m81 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 23 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 57 to 49. 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
2.3 m90 in
Now
2.1 m84 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
1.6 m63 in
Now
1.3 m53 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−12 days
Then
18
Now
6
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-4°C25°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 m118 in1951/522.5 m97 in1952/531.5 m60 in1953/542.0 m79 in1954/551.7 m69 in1955/562.0 m77 in1956/571.6 m61 in1957/582.3 m90 in1958/592.6 m102 in1959/602.3 m90 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m87 in1961/622.2 m87 in1962/632.5 m97 in1963/641.7 m67 in1964/652.3 m91 in1965/662.6 m101 in1966/672.4 m94 in1967/682.5 m98 in1968/692.4 m95 in1969/702.7 m108 in
- 1970s1970/712.5 m99 in1971/723.3 m129 in1972/732.0 m80 in1973/742.7 m108 in1974/751.7 m67 in1975/761.8 m70 in1976/772.3 m90 in1977/782.8 m110 in1978/793.0 m117 in1979/801.7 m68 in
- 1980s1980/813.0 m118 in1981/822.7 m106 in1982/832.0 m78 in1983/842.2 m86 in1984/851.7 m66 in1985/862.7 m106 in1986/872.1 m84 in1987/882.1 m81 in1988/891.7 m65 in1989/901.1 m44 in
- 1990s1990/912.2 m87 in1991/921.8 m71 in1992/931.5 m59 in1993/942.5 m99 in1994/951.8 m69 in1995/962.5 m96 in1996/972.4 m93 in1997/981.9 m74 in1998/992.5 m99 in1999/001.7 m68 in
- 2000s2000/012.2 m87 in2001/022.0 m80 in2002/032.8 m109 in2003/042.5 m98 in2004/052.2 m85 in2005/061.9 m76 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/081.8 m72 in2008/092.9 m116 in2009/102.4 m96 in
- 2010s2010/111.4 m55 in2011/121.5 m60 in2012/133.0 m120 in2013/142.6 m104 in2014/152.2 m88 in2015/162.1 m84 in2016/172.1 m81 in2017/183.0 m120 in2018/191.7 m69 in2019/201.9 m74 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m71 in2021/222.4 m95 in2022/231.2 m48 in2023/241.9 m76 in2024/251.6 m63 in2025/262.5 m98 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