76 winters, day by day
Grand Tourmalet, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Grand Tourmalet, 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 45% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 2.1 m84 in to 1.8 m72 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−62 days
The trend: from 143 to 82. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 58 to 50. 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−10%
Then
2.1 m83 in
Now
1.9 m75 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
1.1 m43 in
Now
86.567 cm34 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−39 days
Then
137
Now
97
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-4°C24°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
- 1950s1950/512.8 m109 in1951/522.3 m89 in1952/531.8 m71 in1953/541.9 m73 in1954/551.5 m57 in1955/561.8 m71 in1956/571.4 m57 in1957/582.2 m88 in1958/592.0 m80 in1959/602.0 m79 in
- 1960s1960/611.9 m76 in1961/622.0 m80 in1962/632.2 m87 in1963/641.5 m60 in1964/652.2 m87 in1965/662.3 m89 in1966/672.2 m87 in1967/682.5 m98 in1968/692.0 m79 in1969/702.7 m108 in
- 1970s1970/712.2 m85 in1971/723.0 m119 in1972/732.2 m86 in1973/742.4 m94 in1974/751.6 m65 in1975/761.9 m73 in1976/772.0 m78 in1977/782.8 m110 in1978/792.5 m100 in1979/801.7 m69 in
- 1980s1980/812.7 m107 in1981/822.1 m84 in1982/832.0 m79 in1983/842.0 m78 in1984/851.8 m71 in1985/862.8 m111 in1986/872.0 m78 in1987/882.0 m79 in1988/891.5 m59 in1989/901.3 m50 in
- 1990s1990/912.0 m77 in1991/921.5 m58 in1992/931.3 m49 in1993/942.3 m92 in1994/951.8 m70 in1995/961.9 m74 in1996/971.7 m66 in1997/981.6 m63 in1998/992.0 m78 in1999/001.7 m67 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m82 in2001/021.7 m67 in2002/032.3 m90 in2003/042.1 m83 in2004/052.3 m89 in2005/061.6 m63 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/081.5 m60 in2008/092.5 m99 in2009/102.0 m78 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m61 in2011/121.5 m61 in2012/133.0 m116 in2013/142.4 m95 in2014/152.2 m87 in2015/162.0 m78 in2016/171.7 m68 in2017/182.6 m102 in2018/191.6 m65 in2019/201.7 m67 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m65 in2021/222.1 m82 in2022/231.3 m52 in2023/241.6 m63 in2024/251.3 m52 in2025/262.1 m81 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