76 winters, day by day
Gerlitzen Alpe, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gerlitzen Alpe, Austria. 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+6.0°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−32%
The trend: from 1.8 m72 in to 1.2 m49 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−75 days
The trend: from 129 to 54. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−63 days
The trend: from 106 to 43. 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−26%
Then
1.7 m68 in
Now
1.3 m50 in
- Snowfall in the village−32%
Then
1.4 m55 in
Now
94.967 cm37 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
4
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−53 days
Then
115
Now
63
- Days with a base in the village−45 days
Then
94
Now
49
- Average temperature at the summit+2.0°C+3.6°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/513.2 m126 in1951/521.7 m65 in1952/5395 cm37 in1953/541.1 m43 in1954/551.6 m62 in1955/5689 cm35 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/581.9 m75 in1958/5990 cm35 in1959/602.1 m81 in
- 1960s1960/611.2 m46 in1961/621.9 m76 in1962/632.0 m78 in1963/6481 cm32 in1964/652.0 m79 in1965/661.9 m74 in1966/671.9 m75 in1967/681.4 m54 in1968/691.9 m75 in1969/702.6 m104 in
- 1970s1970/711.5 m59 in1971/721.7 m66 in1972/731.7 m68 in1973/741.4 m54 in1974/751.9 m75 in1975/761.3 m52 in1976/772.3 m92 in1977/782.8 m110 in1978/791.9 m75 in1979/802.4 m93 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m67 in1981/821.6 m61 in1982/831.7 m69 in1983/842.3 m89 in1984/851.9 m75 in1985/862.6 m102 in1986/871.8 m69 in1987/881.6 m63 in1988/8961 cm24 in1989/9091 cm36 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m59 in1991/921.7 m69 in1992/9382 cm32 in1993/941.6 m64 in1994/951.5 m59 in1995/961.8 m72 in1996/9794 cm37 in1997/981.2 m45 in1998/991.2 m47 in1999/001.2 m48 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m49 in2001/0273 cm29 in2002/0385 cm33 in2003/041.9 m75 in2004/051.3 m49 in2005/061.9 m74 in2006/071.2 m48 in2007/081.1 m43 in2008/092.3 m91 in2009/101.4 m54 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m43 in2011/1267 cm26 in2012/132.0 m77 in2013/142.1 m82 in2014/1569 cm27 in2015/161.4 m57 in2016/1774 cm29 in2017/182.1 m81 in2018/1984 cm33 in2019/2085 cm33 in
- 2020s2020/211.9 m76 in2021/221.3 m52 in2022/231.3 m52 in2023/241.3 m51 in2024/2569 cm27 in2025/261.0 m41 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