76 winters, day by day
Gorny Vozdukh Mountain Air, Russia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gorny Vozdukh Mountain Air, Russia. 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 7% of 736 resorts
+1.2°C+2.1°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -10°C14°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+4%
The trend: from 2.2 m85 in to 2.2 m88 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 4 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 126 to 112. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 47 to 42. 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+1%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.2 m88 in
- Snowfall in the village+1%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.2 m88 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
5
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
123
Now
116
- Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.1°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/511.9 m74 in1951/521.7 m66 in1952/531.7 m68 in1953/541.6 m61 in1954/552.1 m81 in1955/563.1 m122 in1956/572.1 m84 in1957/582.4 m93 in1958/591.6 m64 in1959/601.7 m68 in
- 1960s1960/612.0 m79 in1961/622.4 m93 in1962/632.0 m78 in1963/641.6 m62 in1964/653.4 m133 in1965/663.3 m128 in1966/672.0 m80 in1967/682.8 m110 in1968/691.8 m72 in1969/703.7 m144 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m89 in1971/722.1 m82 in1972/733.1 m121 in1973/742.3 m90 in1974/752.3 m89 in1975/761.5 m59 in1976/772.5 m99 in1977/781.6 m63 in1978/791.8 m69 in1979/802.3 m92 in
- 1980s1980/811.8 m69 in1981/822.3 m92 in1982/831.5 m59 in1983/841.7 m67 in1984/852.3 m92 in1985/862.2 m86 in1986/872.5 m98 in1987/881.6 m64 in1988/892.2 m88 in1989/901.8 m71 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m52 in1991/921.2 m48 in1992/933.1 m124 in1993/943.2 m126 in1994/952.1 m82 in1995/962.4 m95 in1996/972.4 m93 in1997/981.6 m65 in1998/991.9 m74 in1999/002.2 m88 in
- 2000s2000/012.7 m107 in2001/021.8 m70 in2002/032.2 m86 in2003/042.5 m99 in2004/052.3 m91 in2005/063.2 m125 in2006/072.2 m85 in2007/081.4 m54 in2008/093.1 m121 in2009/103.1 m123 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m100 in2011/122.6 m101 in2012/132.6 m101 in2013/142.1 m82 in2014/152.8 m111 in2015/162.1 m83 in2016/171.9 m73 in2017/182.6 m104 in2018/1994 cm37 in2019/202.2 m88 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m84 in2021/222.1 m81 in2022/231.5 m59 in2023/242.1 m84 in2024/252.4 m96 in2025/262.0 m80 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