76 winters, day by day
Gstaad - Saanen - Rougemont, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gstaad - Saanen - Rougemont, 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 55% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -9°C17°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−13%
The trend: from 4.4 m173 in to 3.8 m150 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 12 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 159 to 153. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 72 to 61. 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 m167 in
Now
3.9 m153 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
2.2 m85 in
Now
1.8 m70 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
12
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
159
Now
156
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-8°C18°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/514.8 m188 in1951/524.4 m172 in1952/534.6 m180 in1953/543.1 m122 in1954/554.2 m165 in1955/563.0 m118 in1956/572.4 m94 in1957/584.9 m194 in1958/593.1 m121 in1959/604.2 m164 in
- 1960s1960/613.7 m145 in1961/624.2 m167 in1962/634.5 m175 in1963/642.0 m79 in1964/654.4 m172 in1965/665.8 m229 in1966/675.2 m205 in1967/684.9 m193 in1968/694.3 m167 in1969/707.2 m282 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m119 in1971/723.3 m130 in1972/734.2 m165 in1973/743.8 m148 in1974/755.2 m205 in1975/762.9 m114 in1976/775.1 m199 in1977/785.6 m220 in1978/794.1 m161 in1979/805.8 m226 in
- 1980s1980/815.0 m196 in1981/825.8 m230 in1982/835.0 m195 in1983/844.8 m189 in1984/853.9 m153 in1985/864.6 m180 in1986/874.7 m186 in1987/885.3 m209 in1988/893.8 m151 in1989/902.9 m112 in
- 1990s1990/913.3 m128 in1991/924.1 m161 in1992/933.0 m119 in1993/944.5 m175 in1994/955.5 m215 in1995/962.4 m96 in1996/973.9 m154 in1997/983.9 m154 in1998/995.9 m233 in1999/004.8 m189 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m182 in2001/023.0 m119 in2002/033.7 m144 in2003/044.0 m156 in2004/053.8 m150 in2005/063.5 m137 in2006/072.9 m116 in2007/084.5 m178 in2008/094.3 m171 in2009/103.0 m119 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m96 in2011/124.7 m183 in2012/135.1 m202 in2013/143.7 m146 in2014/153.7 m147 in2015/164.2 m167 in2016/172.9 m114 in2017/185.0 m196 in2018/194.2 m166 in2019/203.9 m154 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m150 in2021/223.6 m141 in2022/232.6 m102 in2023/244.3 m169 in2024/253.0 m117 in2025/263.2 m126 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