SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Hintertuxer Gletscher
Average winter
3.4 m136 in
Snowiest winter
5.3 m210 in
Leanest winter
2.1 m81 in
Powder days a winter
6

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 36% of 736 resorts

+1.9°C+3.5°F

The trend: from -15°C6°F to -13°C9°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-16°3°-14°7°-12°10°

Snowfall at the summit

−7%

The trend: from 3.6 m141 in to 3.3 m130 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 7 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.

051015

Days with a base at the summit

−7 days

The trend: from 171 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with a base in the village

−13 days

The trend: from 164 to 151. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

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

3.6 m141 in

Now

3.4 m132 in

Snowfall in the village−14%

Then

2.6 m101 in

Now

2.2 m86 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

7

Now

6

Days with a base at the summit−4 days

Then

170

Now

166

Days with a base in the village−8 days

Then

162

Now

154

Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F

Then

-14°C7°F

Now

-13°C9°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

Most snow in a day
82 cm32 in
Snowiest winter
5.3 m210 in
Leanest winter
2.1 m81 in
Deepest snow on the ground
291 cm115 in
Coldest night at the summit
-43°C-46°F
Strongest gust at the summit
114 km/h71 mph

All winters

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