76 winters, day by day
Gavarnie-Gèdre, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gavarnie-Gèdre, 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 63% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -4°C26°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 3.6 m142 in to 3.1 m123 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 8 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−61 days
The trend: from 144 to 84. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 69 to 58. 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−11%
Then
3.6 m142 in
Now
3.2 m127 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
2.3 m92 in
Now
1.9 m75 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−39 days
Then
138
Now
99
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F
Then
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/514.5 m176 in1951/523.8 m148 in1952/532.7 m107 in1953/542.7 m107 in1954/552.8 m111 in1955/563.0 m118 in1956/572.3 m89 in1957/583.5 m138 in1958/593.7 m146 in1959/603.9 m154 in
- 1960s1960/613.1 m123 in1961/623.6 m140 in1962/634.0 m158 in1963/642.9 m116 in1964/653.6 m143 in1965/664.4 m175 in1966/674.0 m157 in1967/684.1 m161 in1968/693.6 m143 in1969/704.3 m169 in
- 1970s1970/713.6 m143 in1971/725.3 m209 in1972/733.5 m136 in1973/744.0 m158 in1974/752.7 m106 in1975/762.9 m112 in1976/773.7 m145 in1977/784.4 m171 in1978/794.7 m185 in1979/803.0 m118 in
- 1980s1980/813.8 m150 in1981/823.8 m151 in1982/833.3 m128 in1983/843.5 m139 in1984/853.2 m124 in1985/864.4 m174 in1986/873.0 m117 in1987/883.2 m126 in1988/892.6 m104 in1989/902.2 m86 in
- 1990s1990/913.1 m122 in1991/922.4 m93 in1992/932.0 m77 in1993/943.9 m153 in1994/952.7 m106 in1995/963.3 m131 in1996/973.0 m119 in1997/983.2 m125 in1998/993.0 m118 in1999/002.8 m109 in
- 2000s2000/014.0 m157 in2001/022.7 m108 in2002/034.1 m161 in2003/043.3 m131 in2004/052.8 m109 in2005/062.8 m110 in2006/072.5 m97 in2007/082.9 m113 in2008/094.2 m165 in2009/103.7 m145 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m101 in2011/122.1 m83 in2012/134.6 m182 in2013/144.4 m174 in2014/153.5 m139 in2015/163.6 m142 in2016/173.1 m123 in2017/184.4 m174 in2018/192.9 m112 in2019/203.1 m122 in
- 2020s2020/212.9 m113 in2021/223.6 m140 in2022/232.3 m89 in2023/242.9 m113 in2024/252.3 m91 in2025/263.7 m145 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