76 winters, day by day
Font-Romeu Pyrénées 2000, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Font-Romeu Pyrénées 2000, 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 36% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -3°C26°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 2.1 m83 in to 1.9 m73 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
−24 days
The trend: from 59 to 35. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 50 to 44. 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−9%
Then
2.1 m82 in
Now
1.9 m75 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
1.3 m51 in
Now
1.1 m45 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−13 days
Then
57
Now
44
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-3°C27°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
All winters
- 1950s1950/512.9 m116 in1951/522.0 m80 in1952/531.4 m56 in1953/542.2 m85 in1954/551.3 m50 in1955/561.6 m63 in1956/571.5 m59 in1957/582.0 m78 in1958/593.0 m117 in1959/601.7 m67 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m87 in1961/621.9 m73 in1962/632.2 m85 in1963/641.2 m46 in1964/652.2 m85 in1965/661.9 m73 in1966/672.1 m81 in1967/682.0 m79 in1968/692.8 m110 in1969/702.6 m102 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m89 in1971/723.5 m136 in1972/731.8 m71 in1973/742.7 m108 in1974/751.6 m63 in1975/761.8 m70 in1976/771.8 m72 in1977/782.8 m111 in1978/792.5 m99 in1979/801.8 m69 in
- 1980s1980/813.1 m122 in1981/822.8 m109 in1982/831.8 m71 in1983/841.9 m73 in1984/851.2 m47 in1985/862.5 m100 in1986/871.8 m69 in1987/881.7 m67 in1988/891.3 m53 in1989/9096 cm38 in
- 1990s1990/912.0 m80 in1991/922.2 m86 in1992/931.8 m70 in1993/942.1 m82 in1994/951.4 m56 in1995/962.2 m85 in1996/972.1 m84 in1997/981.2 m49 in1998/992.3 m90 in1999/001.6 m61 in
- 2000s2000/011.6 m65 in2001/022.2 m85 in2002/032.4 m93 in2003/042.7 m104 in2004/052.3 m89 in2005/061.9 m76 in2006/071.2 m47 in2007/081.4 m53 in2008/093.0 m116 in2009/102.1 m81 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m44 in2011/121.4 m55 in2012/132.7 m107 in2013/142.3 m91 in2014/152.0 m79 in2015/161.7 m66 in2016/171.9 m76 in2017/183.0 m116 in2018/191.3 m52 in2019/202.2 m85 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m59 in2021/222.0 m78 in2022/2392 cm36 in2023/241.3 m52 in2024/251.3 m50 in2025/263.1 m121 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