76 winters, day by day
Grüsch-Danusa, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Grüsch-Danusa, 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 77% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.7°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−15%
The trend: from 4.5 m177 in to 3.8 m151 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 12 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 165 to 150. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 77 to 68. 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−9%
Then
4.3 m171 in
Now
3.9 m155 in
- Snowfall in the village−26%
Then
1.3 m52 in
Now
98.833 cm39 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
11
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
162
Now
154
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°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
- 1950s1950/515.3 m210 in1951/524.2 m164 in1952/534.4 m171 in1953/543.3 m131 in1954/554.8 m188 in1955/563.4 m134 in1956/572.7 m104 in1957/584.3 m170 in1958/593.2 m126 in1959/604.2 m163 in
- 1960s1960/613.5 m138 in1961/624.6 m182 in1962/634.3 m170 in1963/642.5 m98 in1964/654.6 m182 in1965/665.2 m205 in1966/676.3 m250 in1967/684.9 m194 in1968/693.6 m140 in1969/706.5 m256 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m122 in1971/723.4 m135 in1972/734.3 m169 in1973/744.8 m189 in1974/755.9 m233 in1975/763.2 m125 in1976/775.1 m202 in1977/785.1 m200 in1978/793.9 m153 in1979/805.5 m215 in
- 1980s1980/814.5 m176 in1981/825.5 m217 in1982/834.6 m181 in1983/844.5 m177 in1984/853.9 m155 in1985/864.6 m180 in1986/874.5 m178 in1987/885.1 m201 in1988/894.1 m159 in1989/903.3 m131 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m119 in1991/925.2 m204 in1992/933.6 m142 in1993/944.1 m160 in1994/955.2 m206 in1995/962.9 m114 in1996/974.1 m159 in1997/984.0 m156 in1998/996.0 m235 in1999/005.8 m229 in
- 2000s2000/015.4 m213 in2001/023.4 m134 in2002/033.4 m134 in2003/044.3 m168 in2004/053.6 m141 in2005/063.8 m149 in2006/073.1 m122 in2007/085.0 m195 in2008/094.8 m187 in2009/103.2 m126 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m100 in2011/125.2 m203 in2012/133.9 m152 in2013/143.4 m135 in2014/153.7 m147 in2015/163.5 m138 in2016/173.1 m121 in2017/184.5 m177 in2018/194.7 m186 in2019/203.6 m140 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m150 in2021/223.4 m134 in2022/233.0 m120 in2023/245.1 m201 in2024/252.6 m101 in2025/262.7 m105 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