76 winters, day by day
Estación de Esquí y Montaña de Sierra Nevada, Spain. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Estación de Esquí y Montaña de Sierra Nevada, 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 44% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−55%
The trend: from 36 cm14 in to 16 cm6 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
−2 days
The trend: from 2 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 0. 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−38%
Then
34.667 cm14 in
Now
21.567 cm8 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base in the village−1 day
Then
1
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-5°C24°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/5180 cm31 in1951/5220 cm8 in1952/5322 cm9 in1953/5442 cm17 in1954/5531 cm12 in1955/5642 cm17 in1956/5738 cm15 in1957/5831 cm12 in1958/5919 cm7 in1959/6029 cm11 in
- 1960s1960/6128 cm11 in1961/6210 cm4 in1962/6337 cm15 in1963/6422 cm9 in1964/6515 cm6 in1965/6612 cm5 in1966/6721 cm8 in1967/6831 cm12 in1968/6925 cm10 in1969/7024 cm9 in
- 1970s1970/7193 cm37 in1971/7262 cm24 in1972/7332 cm13 in1973/7447 cm19 in1974/7533 cm13 in1975/7651 cm20 in1976/7749 cm19 in1977/7815 cm6 in1978/7942 cm17 in1979/8037 cm15 in
- 1980s1980/8117 cm7 in1981/8213 cm5 in1982/8331 cm12 in1983/8421 cm8 in1984/859 cm4 in1985/8632 cm13 in1986/8718 cm7 in1987/8820 cm8 in1988/8920 cm8 in1989/909 cm4 in
- 1990s1990/9138 cm15 in1991/9227 cm11 in1992/9313 cm5 in1993/9424 cm9 in1994/953 cm1 in1995/9615 cm6 in1996/9730 cm12 in1997/9818 cm7 in1998/9925 cm10 in1999/0014 cm6 in
- 2000s2000/0110 cm4 in2001/0223 cm9 in2002/0318 cm7 in2003/0421 cm8 in2004/0550 cm20 in2005/0639 cm15 in2006/0732 cm13 in2007/082 cm0.8 in2008/0967 cm26 in2009/1034 cm13 in
- 2010s2010/1122 cm9 in2011/1211 cm4 in2012/1328 cm11 in2013/1421 cm8 in2014/1528 cm11 in2015/1616 cm6 in2016/1729 cm11 in2017/1822 cm9 in2018/195 cm2 in2019/2010 cm4 in
- 2020s2020/2119 cm7 in2021/229 cm4 in2022/238 cm3 in2023/249 cm4 in2024/2510 cm4 in2025/2617 cm7 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