76 winters, day by day
Gautefall skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gautefall skisenter, 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 97% of 736 resorts
+3.3°C+5.9°F
The trend: from -6°C22°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 2.8 m111 in to 2.3 m92 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−32 days
The trend: from 147 to 115. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 50 to 42. 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−15%
Then
2.8 m112 in
Now
2.4 m95 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
2.9 m114 in
Now
2.5 m97 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−24 days
Then
146
Now
122
- Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+3.9°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/515.0 m197 in1951/521.8 m71 in1952/531.7 m67 in1953/543.1 m123 in1954/552.9 m115 in1955/561.8 m71 in1956/572.0 m80 in1957/582.2 m85 in1958/592.0 m78 in1959/604.1 m162 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m126 in1961/622.7 m107 in1962/631.8 m69 in1963/641.4 m54 in1964/652.0 m78 in1965/663.5 m139 in1966/674.2 m166 in1967/682.4 m95 in1968/693.1 m122 in1969/703.4 m133 in
- 1970s1970/713.6 m143 in1971/724.0 m158 in1972/731.8 m72 in1973/743.2 m126 in1974/752.7 m106 in1975/761.9 m76 in1976/773.4 m135 in1977/784.3 m170 in1978/792.6 m103 in1979/803.2 m124 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m57 in1981/822.3 m91 in1982/832.4 m93 in1983/842.5 m99 in1984/853.3 m130 in1985/862.5 m98 in1986/872.6 m102 in1987/883.9 m155 in1988/891.9 m73 in1989/901.8 m70 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m102 in1991/9282 cm32 in1992/931.7 m65 in1993/943.5 m137 in1994/953.4 m135 in1995/961.8 m69 in1996/971.9 m76 in1997/982.9 m114 in1998/992.9 m115 in1999/001.7 m67 in
- 2000s2000/012.6 m102 in2001/021.5 m59 in2002/032.6 m103 in2003/042.1 m83 in2004/051.1 m45 in2005/063.0 m119 in2006/071.7 m65 in2007/083.2 m126 in2008/093.2 m124 in2009/102.5 m97 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m86 in2011/121.7 m67 in2012/132.3 m92 in2013/143.9 m152 in2014/152.2 m85 in2015/161.9 m75 in2016/172.0 m80 in2017/183.1 m120 in2018/193.1 m121 in2019/202.7 m108 in
- 2020s2020/212.7 m105 in2021/221.9 m73 in2022/233.2 m124 in2023/242.9 m115 in2024/251.8 m71 in2025/261.7 m68 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