Kals-Matrei, 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 35% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 3.9 m154 in to 3.6 m143 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 8 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 171 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 83 to 73. 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−6%
Then
3.9 m154 in
Now
3.7 m145 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
1.3 m51 in
Now
1.0 m40 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
8
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
169
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+1.9°F
Then
-8°C17°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/515.9 m233 in1951/523.6 m143 in1952/533.0 m118 in1953/542.7 m108 in1954/553.4 m134 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/573.0 m119 in1957/583.8 m151 in1958/593.3 m128 in1959/604.2 m167 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m126 in1961/624.8 m188 in1962/633.2 m125 in1963/642.9 m113 in1964/655.0 m196 in1965/663.9 m155 in1966/675.6 m219 in1967/684.1 m159 in1968/693.1 m121 in1969/704.6 m181 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m130 in1971/723.8 m151 in1972/733.4 m135 in1973/743.9 m154 in1974/755.1 m199 in1975/763.2 m124 in1976/775.3 m209 in1977/784.4 m175 in1978/794.0 m158 in1979/804.6 m183 in
- 1980s1980/813.4 m133 in1981/823.5 m136 in1982/834.0 m156 in1983/843.6 m140 in1984/853.6 m140 in1985/864.3 m170 in1986/873.8 m149 in1987/884.0 m159 in1988/894.0 m157 in1989/903.1 m122 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m126 in1991/925.0 m198 in1992/933.6 m141 in1993/943.2 m126 in1994/954.0 m156 in1995/962.4 m94 in1996/973.6 m140 in1997/983.5 m137 in1998/993.9 m155 in1999/004.3 m171 in
- 2000s2000/015.4 m211 in2001/023.3 m131 in2002/033.2 m124 in2003/043.8 m148 in2004/053.1 m121 in2005/063.4 m133 in2006/073.0 m117 in2007/083.9 m155 in2008/094.8 m188 in2009/103.3 m128 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m107 in2011/123.4 m132 in2012/133.9 m153 in2013/144.7 m187 in2014/153.3 m130 in2015/163.4 m132 in2016/173.1 m120 in2017/184.0 m156 in2018/194.5 m175 in2019/204.5 m177 in
- 2020s2020/214.3 m171 in2021/223.4 m134 in2022/233.5 m137 in2023/245.1 m200 in2024/252.3 m92 in2025/262.2 m88 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