76 winters, day by day
Hindelang Oberjoch, Germany. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Hindelang Oberjoch, Germany. 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 76% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.6°F
The trend: from -6°C22°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−20%
The trend: from 3.8 m149 in to 3.0 m119 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 9 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−23 days
The trend: from 150 to 127. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 69 to 60. 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−13%
Then
3.6 m142 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
2.7 m107 in
Now
2.2 m87 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
8
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−14 days
Then
147
Now
134
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.6°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-4°C26°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
- 1950s1950/514.1 m161 in1951/523.4 m132 in1952/533.9 m154 in1953/542.9 m112 in1954/553.7 m146 in1955/563.1 m121 in1956/572.2 m88 in1957/583.9 m152 in1958/592.6 m104 in1959/603.2 m128 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m103 in1961/623.8 m151 in1962/633.5 m136 in1963/642.0 m78 in1964/653.8 m151 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/675.4 m213 in1967/684.1 m162 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/705.8 m229 in
- 1970s1970/712.6 m102 in1971/722.3 m91 in1972/734.1 m163 in1973/744.1 m160 in1974/754.5 m178 in1975/763.0 m117 in1976/774.3 m170 in1977/784.2 m167 in1978/793.2 m127 in1979/804.5 m178 in
- 1980s1980/814.0 m157 in1981/825.1 m199 in1982/833.8 m149 in1983/843.7 m144 in1984/853.1 m123 in1985/863.7 m144 in1986/873.5 m138 in1987/884.4 m172 in1988/893.1 m122 in1989/902.6 m103 in
- 1990s1990/912.3 m91 in1991/923.9 m154 in1992/932.5 m100 in1993/943.7 m146 in1994/954.2 m165 in1995/962.6 m103 in1996/973.2 m124 in1997/983.1 m120 in1998/994.8 m191 in1999/005.0 m195 in
- 2000s2000/013.8 m148 in2001/022.7 m108 in2002/032.6 m102 in2003/043.5 m136 in2004/053.1 m123 in2005/063.5 m136 in2006/072.3 m89 in2007/084.0 m156 in2008/093.6 m142 in2009/102.5 m98 in
- 2010s2010/111.9 m74 in2011/124.1 m162 in2012/133.6 m140 in2013/142.4 m93 in2014/153.0 m117 in2015/163.0 m120 in2016/172.6 m101 in2017/183.4 m135 in2018/193.8 m149 in2019/202.8 m108 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m121 in2021/222.7 m108 in2022/232.3 m90 in2023/243.7 m144 in2024/251.9 m76 in2025/262.2 m87 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