76 winters, day by day
Hovden Alpinsenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Hovden Alpinsenter, Norway. 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 84% of 736 resorts
+2.8°C+5.0°F
The trend: from -8°C17°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+24%
The trend: from 3.9 m155 in to 4.9 m191 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 9 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 179 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+9 days
The trend: from 77 to 87. 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
4.0 m158 in
Now
4.6 m180 in
- Snowfall in the village−4%
Then
2.7 m106 in
Now
2.6 m101 in
- Powder days at the summit+3 days
Then
9
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
174
Now
166
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.2°F
Then
-8°C18°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/514.2 m164 in1951/524.6 m182 in1952/533.3 m128 in1953/543.8 m150 in1954/553.6 m141 in1955/562.5 m98 in1956/574.1 m160 in1957/583.5 m136 in1958/593.1 m121 in1959/604.9 m191 in
- 1960s1960/614.4 m172 in1961/624.8 m189 in1962/632.4 m95 in1963/642.7 m107 in1964/653.8 m148 in1965/663.4 m134 in1966/676.2 m245 in1967/684.4 m173 in1968/693.3 m131 in1969/703.3 m128 in
- 1970s1970/714.4 m174 in1971/724.8 m189 in1972/734.1 m162 in1973/744.7 m186 in1974/755.0 m198 in1975/765.4 m214 in1976/773.9 m155 in1977/784.5 m178 in1978/794.2 m163 in1979/803.2 m126 in
- 1980s1980/814.2 m166 in1981/823.7 m144 in1982/836.0 m237 in1983/844.1 m163 in1984/854.0 m156 in1985/863.7 m145 in1986/873.8 m151 in1987/884.4 m174 in1988/895.7 m223 in1989/907.9 m311 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m143 in1991/925.1 m200 in1992/936.8 m266 in1993/945.4 m211 in1994/956.2 m244 in1995/961.9 m74 in1996/974.8 m189 in1997/984.5 m175 in1998/994.7 m186 in1999/005.5 m215 in
- 2000s2000/015.2 m206 in2001/024.6 m181 in2002/033.4 m135 in2003/043.8 m149 in2004/054.4 m173 in2005/063.5 m139 in2006/075.9 m233 in2007/086.1 m240 in2008/094.1 m161 in2009/103.6 m141 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m120 in2011/124.6 m182 in2012/133.7 m144 in2013/146.9 m273 in2014/155.3 m210 in2015/165.3 m207 in2016/173.9 m152 in2017/184.2 m165 in2018/193.4 m134 in2019/206.5 m254 in
- 2020s2020/214.2 m167 in2021/223.5 m138 in2022/235.4 m214 in2023/245.7 m224 in2024/253.5 m137 in2025/264.0 m156 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