Gérardmer, 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 70% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.4°F
The trend: from -1°C30°F to 1°C35°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−38%
The trend: from 1.1 m44 in to 69 cm27 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−24 days
The trend: from 24 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 31 to 20. 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−24%
Then
1.0 m40 in
Now
77.167 cm30 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
1.0 m41 in
Now
78.967 cm31 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−15 days
Then
20
Now
5
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
0°C31°F
Now
1°C34°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
- 1950s1950/511.0 m39 in1951/521.4 m54 in1952/531.6 m63 in1953/5483 cm33 in1954/5596 cm38 in1955/5656 cm22 in1956/5750 cm20 in1957/581.5 m57 in1958/5993 cm37 in1959/6068 cm27 in
- 1960s1960/6171 cm28 in1961/6278 cm31 in1962/631.2 m45 in1963/6443 cm17 in1964/651.3 m52 in1965/6698 cm39 in1966/6794 cm37 in1967/681.8 m71 in1968/691.3 m50 in1969/702.0 m80 in
- 1970s1970/7140 cm16 in1971/7272 cm28 in1972/731.1 m44 in1973/7467 cm26 in1974/7592 cm36 in1975/7692 cm36 in1976/7795 cm37 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/7987 cm34 in1979/8075 cm30 in
- 1980s1980/811.8 m69 in1981/821.4 m57 in1982/831.2 m47 in1983/841.3 m50 in1984/8572 cm28 in1985/861.5 m59 in1986/8799 cm39 in1987/8888 cm35 in1988/8967 cm26 in1989/9027 cm11 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m41 in1991/9254 cm21 in1992/9337 cm15 in1993/941.0 m41 in1994/9593 cm37 in1995/9647 cm19 in1996/9759 cm23 in1997/9836 cm14 in1998/991.5 m57 in1999/001.0 m41 in
- 2000s2000/0165 cm26 in2001/0272 cm28 in2002/0357 cm22 in2003/0485 cm33 in2004/0595 cm37 in2005/061.5 m59 in2006/0756 cm22 in2007/0872 cm28 in2008/091.0 m41 in2009/1096 cm38 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m42 in2011/1270 cm28 in2012/131.1 m41 in2013/1440 cm16 in2014/1582 cm32 in2015/161.0 m40 in2016/1749 cm19 in2017/181.1 m41 in2018/1963 cm25 in2019/2049 cm19 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m48 in2021/2272 cm28 in2022/2329 cm11 in2023/2430 cm12 in2024/2539 cm15 in2025/2656 cm22 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