76 winters, day by day
Hochoetz-Kühtai, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Hochoetz-Kühtai, 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 40% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−13%
The trend: from 3.8 m148 in to 3.3 m129 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 8 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 173 to 167. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−16 days
The trend: from 160 to 144. 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−8%
Then
3.7 m144 in
Now
3.4 m132 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
3.7 m144 in
Now
3.4 m132 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
171
Now
169
- Days with a base in the village−11 days
Then
158
Now
147
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-10°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/514.7 m185 in1951/523.5 m139 in1952/533.5 m139 in1953/542.7 m107 in1954/553.7 m144 in1955/562.9 m115 in1956/572.4 m94 in1957/583.6 m143 in1958/592.7 m108 in1959/603.7 m147 in
- 1960s1960/612.8 m111 in1961/623.9 m155 in1962/633.3 m130 in1963/642.4 m96 in1964/654.2 m165 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/675.5 m216 in1967/683.9 m154 in1968/692.8 m110 in1969/705.1 m201 in
- 1970s1970/712.7 m108 in1971/723.1 m121 in1972/733.7 m146 in1973/744.1 m161 in1974/754.6 m179 in1975/762.7 m107 in1976/774.6 m180 in1977/784.1 m162 in1978/793.6 m143 in1979/804.6 m180 in
- 1980s1980/813.7 m144 in1981/824.4 m175 in1982/833.7 m147 in1983/843.7 m147 in1984/853.2 m124 in1985/863.8 m148 in1986/873.8 m150 in1987/884.0 m158 in1988/893.6 m140 in1989/903.0 m120 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m106 in1991/924.4 m174 in1992/933.1 m124 in1993/943.3 m130 in1994/954.7 m184 in1995/962.6 m104 in1996/973.4 m135 in1997/983.4 m135 in1998/994.6 m179 in1999/005.0 m195 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m182 in2001/023.4 m133 in2002/032.9 m116 in2003/043.5 m138 in2004/052.9 m113 in2005/063.4 m132 in2006/072.6 m103 in2007/084.0 m157 in2008/094.0 m156 in2009/102.7 m107 in
- 2010s2010/112.1 m84 in2011/124.0 m157 in2012/133.4 m135 in2013/143.0 m119 in2014/153.3 m128 in2015/163.2 m125 in2016/172.7 m106 in2017/183.7 m145 in2018/194.1 m159 in2019/203.4 m132 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m121 in2021/222.9 m112 in2022/232.8 m111 in2023/244.3 m170 in2024/252.1 m84 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