76 winters, day by day
Glacier 3000, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Glacier 3000, Switzerland. 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 68% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -14°C7°F to -12°C11°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 4.8 m189 in to 4.4 m172 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 15 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 166 to 157. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 74 to 65. 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−7%
Then
4.7 m185 in
Now
4.4 m171 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
4.1 m163 in
Now
3.7 m147 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
14
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
166
Now
160
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-13°C8°F
Now
-12°C10°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
- 1950s1950/515.6 m221 in1951/524.8 m191 in1952/534.4 m172 in1953/543.1 m122 in1954/555.4 m213 in1955/563.5 m137 in1956/572.8 m112 in1957/585.0 m198 in1958/593.8 m151 in1959/604.5 m176 in
- 1960s1960/614.3 m171 in1961/624.7 m187 in1962/635.1 m200 in1963/642.5 m100 in1964/654.4 m174 in1965/666.9 m273 in1966/675.5 m218 in1967/684.8 m188 in1968/694.7 m186 in1969/707.5 m296 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m128 in1971/723.7 m146 in1972/734.2 m164 in1973/744.0 m159 in1974/755.6 m219 in1975/763.0 m119 in1976/776.0 m236 in1977/786.3 m250 in1978/795.0 m196 in1979/806.5 m254 in
- 1980s1980/815.0 m197 in1981/826.5 m257 in1982/835.6 m220 in1983/845.0 m195 in1984/854.1 m160 in1985/865.4 m212 in1986/875.2 m204 in1987/885.7 m224 in1988/894.2 m167 in1989/904.1 m162 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m141 in1991/924.5 m177 in1992/933.6 m143 in1993/945.2 m205 in1994/956.4 m250 in1995/962.9 m115 in1996/974.7 m186 in1997/984.1 m160 in1998/996.1 m239 in1999/005.2 m203 in
- 2000s2000/015.4 m213 in2001/023.4 m133 in2002/034.0 m156 in2003/044.4 m174 in2004/053.6 m143 in2005/063.8 m151 in2006/073.5 m138 in2007/085.0 m195 in2008/094.9 m194 in2009/103.5 m139 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m98 in2011/125.1 m202 in2012/135.6 m219 in2013/144.4 m172 in2014/154.2 m166 in2015/164.8 m189 in2016/173.1 m120 in2017/185.9 m234 in2018/194.7 m183 in2019/204.9 m192 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m152 in2021/223.8 m149 in2022/233.6 m141 in2023/245.6 m220 in2024/253.7 m145 in2025/263.5 m139 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