Kaimaktsalan, Greece. 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 22% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.0°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−30%
The trend: from 90 cm35 in to 63 cm25 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 17 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 21 to 14. 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−15%
Then
79 cm31 in
Now
67.3 cm26 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
78.967 cm31 in
Now
67.3 cm26 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
11
Now
7
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.7°F
Then
-6°C20°F
Now
-5°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
- 1950s1950/5176 cm30 in1951/5247 cm19 in1952/5360 cm24 in1953/541.5 m57 in1954/5590 cm35 in1955/561.3 m53 in1956/5764 cm25 in1957/5842 cm17 in1958/5940 cm16 in1959/6074 cm29 in
- 1960s1960/6164 cm25 in1961/6296 cm38 in1962/631.8 m69 in1963/6438 cm15 in1964/6555 cm22 in1965/6661 cm24 in1966/6794 cm37 in1967/681.0 m40 in1968/691.1 m45 in1969/7067 cm26 in
- 1970s1970/7172 cm28 in1971/7277 cm30 in1972/731.0 m40 in1973/7495 cm37 in1974/7585 cm33 in1975/7675 cm30 in1976/7722 cm9 in1977/7861 cm24 in1978/7961 cm24 in1979/8082 cm32 in
- 1980s1980/811.1 m44 in1981/821.4 m53 in1982/8349 cm19 in1983/841.8 m70 in1984/8586 cm34 in1985/8675 cm30 in1986/871.3 m51 in1987/8833 cm13 in1988/891.2 m46 in1989/9033 cm13 in
- 1990s1990/911.2 m48 in1991/9231 cm12 in1992/9367 cm26 in1993/9495 cm37 in1994/9585 cm33 in1995/9689 cm35 in1996/9762 cm24 in1997/9870 cm28 in1998/991.6 m63 in1999/0074 cm29 in
- 2000s2000/0149 cm19 in2001/021.0 m41 in2002/031.0 m41 in2003/0489 cm35 in2004/0577 cm30 in2005/0693 cm37 in2006/0711 cm4 in2007/0831 cm12 in2008/0986 cm34 in2009/101.2 m46 in
- 2010s2010/1150 cm20 in2011/121.2 m47 in2012/1347 cm19 in2013/1425 cm10 in2014/1572 cm28 in2015/1620 cm8 in2016/1750 cm20 in2017/1856 cm22 in2018/1982 cm32 in2019/2066 cm26 in
- 2020s2020/2146 cm18 in2021/2297 cm38 in2022/2320 cm8 in2023/2447 cm19 in2024/2579 cm31 in2025/2615 cm6 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