SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Estació d'esquí Port del Comte, Spain. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Estació d'esquí Port del Comte
Average winter
66.908 cm26 in
Snowiest winter
1.6 m64 in
Leanest winter
18 cm7 in
Powder days a winter
1

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 72% of 736 resorts

+2.5°C+4.4°F

The trend: from -4°C25°F to -1°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-6°21°-4°25°-2°28°0°32°

Snowfall at the summit

−35%

The trend: from 81 cm32 in to 53 cm21 in. Point at a winter to read it.

50 cm20 in1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.

01234

Days with a base at the summit

−11 days

The trend: from 8 to -2. Point at a winter to read it.

0204060

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−5 days

The trend: from 19 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.

102030

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−21%

Then

75.733 cm30 in

Now

59.733 cm24 in

Snowfall in the village−22%

Then

72 cm28 in

Now

56.067 cm22 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

1

Now

1

Days with a base at the summit−6 days

Then

7

Now

1

Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.6°F

Then

-3°C26°F

Now

-2°C29°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

Most snow in a day
25 cm10 in
Snowiest winter
1.6 m64 in
Leanest winter
18 cm7 in
Deepest snow on the ground
66 cm26 in
Coldest night at the summit
-33°C-27°F
Strongest gust at the summit
130 km/h81 mph

All winters

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