SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Gitschberg Jochtal, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Gitschberg Jochtal
Average winter
2.2 m86 in
Snowiest winter
4.4 m173 in
Leanest winter
1.2 m47 in
Powder days a winter
4

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 52% of 736 resorts

+2.2°C+3.9°F

The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°

Snowfall at the summit

−14%

The trend: from 2.4 m93 in to 2.0 m79 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 4 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.

0510

Days with a base at the summit

−21 days

The trend: from 165 to 144. Point at a winter to read it.

100150

Days with a base in the village

−48 days

The trend: from 145 to 97. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

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−13%

Then

2.4 m93 in

Now

2.1 m81 in

Snowfall in the village−28%

Then

1.4 m54 in

Now

99.733 cm39 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

4

Now

4

Days with a base at the summit−13 days

Then

162

Now

149

Days with a base in the village−34 days

Then

138

Now

104

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F

Then

-9°C15°F

Now

-8°C17°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

Most snow in a day
73 cm29 in
Snowiest winter
4.4 m173 in
Leanest winter
1.2 m47 in
Deepest snow on the ground
212 cm83 in
Coldest night at the summit
-40°C-39°F
Strongest gust at the summit
105 km/h65 mph

All winters

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