76 winters, day by day
Großglockner Heiligenblut, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Großglockner Heiligenblut, 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 33% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -11°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 4.1 m159 in to 3.8 m149 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 172 to 168. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−15 days
The trend: from 166 to 151. 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−6%
Then
4.1 m160 in
Now
3.8 m151 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.3 m89 in
Now
1.8 m72 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
9
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
170
Now
169
- Days with a base in the village−9 days
Then
163
Now
154
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+1.9°F
Then
-12°C10°F
Now
-11°C12°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
- 1950s1950/516.2 m246 in1951/523.7 m146 in1952/533.1 m122 in1953/542.9 m113 in1954/553.5 m138 in1955/563.3 m129 in1956/573.2 m126 in1957/584.0 m157 in1958/593.3 m131 in1959/604.4 m174 in
- 1960s1960/613.4 m135 in1961/625.0 m195 in1962/633.3 m130 in1963/643.0 m119 in1964/655.1 m200 in1965/664.1 m160 in1966/675.7 m224 in1967/684.2 m166 in1968/693.2 m126 in1969/704.8 m190 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m135 in1971/724.0 m157 in1972/733.6 m142 in1973/744.0 m156 in1974/755.3 m209 in1975/763.2 m127 in1976/775.6 m220 in1977/784.7 m186 in1978/794.2 m165 in1979/804.8 m189 in
- 1980s1980/813.5 m137 in1981/823.5 m138 in1982/834.1 m161 in1983/843.7 m144 in1984/853.6 m143 in1985/864.5 m179 in1986/874.0 m156 in1987/884.2 m166 in1988/894.0 m159 in1989/903.3 m129 in
- 1990s1990/913.4 m135 in1991/925.2 m205 in1992/933.6 m142 in1993/943.3 m129 in1994/954.0 m156 in1995/962.5 m99 in1996/973.6 m143 in1997/983.6 m143 in1998/994.0 m156 in1999/004.4 m172 in
- 2000s2000/015.6 m220 in2001/023.4 m135 in2002/033.2 m127 in2003/043.9 m152 in2004/053.2 m125 in2005/063.6 m142 in2006/073.0 m120 in2007/084.1 m160 in2008/095.1 m199 in2009/103.4 m135 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m111 in2011/123.4 m135 in2012/134.1 m160 in2013/145.1 m200 in2014/153.4 m135 in2015/163.5 m136 in2016/173.2 m126 in2017/184.2 m164 in2018/194.6 m180 in2019/204.7 m184 in
- 2020s2020/214.6 m180 in2021/223.5 m137 in2022/233.7 m144 in2023/245.3 m207 in2024/252.5 m98 in2025/262.4 m93 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