76 winters, day by day
Gålå Alpinsenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gålå Alpinsenter, Norway. 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 98% of 736 resorts
+3.5°C+6.3°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+20%
The trend: from 1.6 m65 in to 2.0 m77 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−17 days
The trend: from 171 to 154. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+6 days
The trend: from 49 to 55. 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+12%
Then
1.7 m66 in
Now
1.9 m74 in
- Snowfall in the village+12%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.9 m75 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
168
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+4.0°F
Then
-11°C11°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m91 in1951/521.7 m65 in1952/531.2 m48 in1953/541.5 m57 in1954/551.6 m65 in1955/561.1 m43 in1956/571.4 m54 in1957/581.3 m51 in1958/591.6 m63 in1959/602.3 m91 in
- 1960s1960/611.7 m67 in1961/622.0 m79 in1962/631.0 m40 in1963/6484 cm33 in1964/651.8 m70 in1965/661.5 m60 in1966/672.4 m94 in1967/681.8 m69 in1968/691.9 m74 in1969/701.6 m63 in
- 1970s1970/711.9 m76 in1971/721.7 m67 in1972/731.4 m56 in1973/741.9 m75 in1974/752.1 m82 in1975/761.6 m65 in1976/772.0 m79 in1977/782.3 m89 in1978/791.9 m73 in1979/801.3 m52 in
- 1980s1980/811.4 m54 in1981/821.9 m76 in1982/832.0 m78 in1983/841.4 m54 in1984/852.3 m91 in1985/861.5 m59 in1986/872.0 m78 in1987/882.4 m93 in1988/892.1 m81 in1989/902.4 m96 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m60 in1991/922.0 m78 in1992/931.9 m73 in1993/941.9 m73 in1994/952.5 m96 in1995/9691 cm36 in1996/971.3 m50 in1997/982.2 m86 in1998/991.9 m75 in1999/002.0 m78 in
- 2000s2000/012.9 m116 in2001/021.6 m64 in2002/031.4 m55 in2003/041.6 m62 in2004/051.7 m68 in2005/061.6 m65 in2006/072.1 m81 in2007/082.8 m112 in2008/092.0 m78 in2009/101.9 m75 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m43 in2011/121.8 m70 in2012/131.5 m58 in2013/142.9 m116 in2014/152.0 m78 in2015/162.1 m81 in2016/171.7 m65 in2017/182.1 m84 in2018/191.6 m63 in2019/202.3 m90 in
- 2020s2020/211.9 m74 in2021/221.1 m42 in2022/232.6 m103 in2023/242.0 m80 in2024/251.3 m53 in2025/261.6 m61 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