SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Funäsdalen, Sweden. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Funäsdalen
Average winter
1.7 m67 in
Snowiest winter
2.5 m98 in
Leanest winter
87 cm34 in
Powder days a winter
0

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 81% of 736 resorts

+2.7°C+4.9°F

The trend: from -9°C16°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-12°10°-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

+8%

The trend: from 1.6 m64 in to 1.8 m69 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in2.0 m79 in2.5 m98 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.

01122

Days with a base at the summit

−15 days

The trend: from 163 to 148. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with fresh snow at the summit

+5 days

The trend: from 53 to 57. Point at a winter to read it.

20406080

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+6%

Then

1.6 m63 in

Now

1.7 m67 in

Snowfall in the village+1%

Then

1.4 m53 in

Now

1.4 m54 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

0

Now

0

Days with a base at the summit−9 days

Then

160

Now

151

Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.1°F

Then

-8°C17°F

Now

-7°C20°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
17 cm7 in
Snowiest winter
2.5 m98 in
Leanest winter
87 cm34 in
Deepest snow on the ground
131 cm52 in
Coldest night at the summit
-37°C-34°F
Strongest gust at the summit
129 km/h80 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