Hochkönig, Austria. 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 75% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.6°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 4.0 m159 in to 3.6 m142 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−18 days
The trend: from 161 to 143. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 74 to 66. 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−7%
Then
3.9 m155 in
Now
3.7 m144 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
2.1 m81 in
Now
1.7 m67 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
9
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−12 days
Then
158
Now
146
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s1950/514.4 m172 in1951/524.1 m160 in1952/533.4 m133 in1953/542.9 m115 in1954/554.0 m159 in1955/563.5 m137 in1956/573.2 m126 in1957/583.7 m146 in1958/592.4 m93 in1959/603.9 m153 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m106 in1961/624.5 m176 in1962/633.3 m130 in1963/642.3 m91 in1964/655.1 m201 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/676.4 m250 in1967/684.0 m156 in1968/693.0 m120 in1969/705.3 m207 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m129 in1971/722.7 m106 in1972/734.4 m172 in1973/744.6 m180 in1974/755.3 m208 in1975/763.4 m132 in1976/774.9 m194 in1977/784.4 m174 in1978/793.5 m137 in1979/805.3 m207 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m169 in1981/825.4 m214 in1982/834.1 m161 in1983/843.7 m147 in1984/853.4 m133 in1985/864.2 m166 in1986/874.5 m178 in1987/884.6 m179 in1988/894.0 m159 in1989/902.7 m104 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m96 in1991/924.7 m187 in1992/933.5 m139 in1993/943.7 m146 in1994/954.7 m184 in1995/963.1 m123 in1996/973.9 m152 in1997/984.0 m157 in1998/994.6 m181 in1999/005.5 m215 in
- 2000s2000/014.0 m157 in2001/023.8 m148 in2002/032.7 m108 in2003/044.0 m156 in2004/053.8 m149 in2005/064.3 m168 in2006/072.8 m112 in2007/084.2 m167 in2008/094.8 m190 in2009/102.7 m107 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m89 in2011/124.6 m182 in2012/134.0 m156 in2013/143.1 m122 in2014/153.5 m136 in2015/162.9 m113 in2016/173.0 m119 in2017/184.0 m156 in2018/195.2 m204 in2019/203.5 m136 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m129 in2021/223.7 m144 in2022/233.3 m128 in2023/244.1 m161 in2024/252.2 m87 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