Hemavan, Sweden. 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 78% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.7°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -10°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+21%
The trend: from 3.0 m118 in to 3.6 m143 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
−6 days
The trend: from 176 to 170. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+10 days
The trend: from 74 to 84. 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+14%
Then
3.1 m122 in
Now
3.5 m139 in
- Snowfall in the village+6%
Then
2.1 m82 in
Now
2.2 m87 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
5
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
173
Now
170
- Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F
Then
-12°C11°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m89 in1951/523.0 m118 in1952/534.9 m191 in1953/542.7 m107 in1954/552.8 m109 in1955/562.6 m103 in1956/572.6 m104 in1957/583.1 m122 in1958/593.5 m136 in1959/602.1 m84 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m154 in1961/622.9 m115 in1962/632.6 m104 in1963/643.5 m137 in1964/653.5 m137 in1965/662.3 m89 in1966/673.0 m118 in1967/683.5 m137 in1968/692.3 m90 in1969/701.9 m75 in
- 1970s1970/713.6 m141 in1971/723.7 m144 in1972/735.1 m199 in1973/743.2 m128 in1974/753.4 m133 in1975/764.3 m168 in1976/772.5 m98 in1977/782.8 m112 in1978/792.8 m111 in1979/802.5 m97 in
- 1980s1980/813.6 m141 in1981/823.1 m120 in1982/833.2 m126 in1983/843.1 m121 in1984/852.2 m86 in1985/862.0 m80 in1986/873.0 m118 in1987/883.3 m131 in1988/895.1 m202 in1989/904.6 m182 in
- 1990s1990/913.7 m146 in1991/924.8 m187 in1992/934.8 m187 in1993/942.0 m78 in1994/953.9 m152 in1995/962.1 m83 in1996/975.5 m215 in1997/983.6 m140 in1998/992.8 m110 in1999/003.8 m150 in
- 2000s2000/012.9 m115 in2001/024.4 m174 in2002/033.4 m134 in2003/043.1 m124 in2004/053.3 m129 in2005/062.6 m102 in2006/074.3 m169 in2007/083.3 m129 in2008/093.0 m117 in2009/102.4 m93 in
- 2010s2010/113.2 m126 in2011/123.9 m154 in2012/132.3 m89 in2013/144.0 m156 in2014/155.1 m200 in2015/162.9 m115 in2016/174.5 m178 in2017/182.6 m104 in2018/193.6 m142 in2019/204.9 m193 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m131 in2021/224.1 m161 in2022/232.7 m105 in2023/243.1 m122 in2024/254.3 m168 in2025/262.9 m113 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