76 winters, day by day
Estación de esquí de Valdesquí, Spain. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Estación de esquí de Valdesquí, 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 41% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to 0°C31°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−40%
The trend: from 71 cm28 in to 43 cm17 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 2 to -1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 20 to 13. 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−25%
Then
68.267 cm27 in
Now
51.133 cm20 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
66.1 cm26 in
Now
49.933 cm20 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
1
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-2°C28°F
Now
-1°C31°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
- 1950s1950/511.7 m67 in1951/5242 cm17 in1952/5344 cm17 in1953/5444 cm17 in1954/5564 cm25 in1955/5691 cm36 in1956/5741 cm16 in1957/5864 cm25 in1958/5949 cm19 in1959/6091 cm36 in
- 1960s1960/6164 cm25 in1961/6255 cm22 in1962/6398 cm39 in1963/6469 cm27 in1964/6568 cm27 in1965/6643 cm17 in1966/6760 cm24 in1967/6850 cm20 in1968/6955 cm22 in1969/7071 cm28 in
- 1970s1970/7181 cm32 in1971/721.1 m44 in1972/7350 cm20 in1973/7492 cm36 in1974/7546 cm18 in1975/7666 cm26 in1976/7771 cm28 in1977/7889 cm35 in1978/7963 cm25 in1979/8044 cm17 in
- 1980s1980/8156 cm22 in1981/8248 cm19 in1982/8324 cm9 in1983/8466 cm26 in1984/8537 cm15 in1985/861.0 m40 in1986/8744 cm17 in1987/8848 cm19 in1988/8937 cm15 in1989/9023 cm9 in
- 1990s1990/9190 cm35 in1991/9239 cm15 in1992/9327 cm11 in1993/9425 cm10 in1994/9521 cm8 in1995/9665 cm26 in1996/9763 cm25 in1997/9863 cm25 in1998/9960 cm24 in1999/0054 cm21 in
- 2000s2000/0153 cm21 in2001/0242 cm17 in2002/0354 cm21 in2003/0456 cm22 in2004/0535 cm14 in2005/0671 cm28 in2006/0726 cm10 in2007/0817 cm7 in2008/0993 cm37 in2009/1078 cm31 in
- 2010s2010/1156 cm22 in2011/1232 cm13 in2012/1369 cm27 in2013/1471 cm28 in2014/1549 cm19 in2015/1639 cm15 in2016/1736 cm14 in2017/181.1 m42 in2018/1923 cm9 in2019/2038 cm15 in
- 2020s2020/2155 cm22 in2021/2236 cm14 in2022/2318 cm7 in2023/2446 cm18 in2024/2533 cm13 in2025/2662 cm24 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