Kappl, 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 52% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -12°C11°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 4.5 m177 in to 4.1 m163 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 11 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 167 to 165. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 77 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−5%
Then
4.4 m173 in
Now
4.2 m164 in
- Snowfall in the village−16%
Then
2.5 m97 in
Now
2.1 m81 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
11
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
166
Now
166
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-11°C12°F
Now
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/515.2 m206 in1951/524.5 m178 in1952/534.3 m167 in1953/543.3 m131 in1954/554.9 m194 in1955/563.6 m143 in1956/573.0 m118 in1957/584.4 m172 in1958/593.4 m132 in1959/604.3 m170 in
- 1960s1960/613.7 m147 in1961/624.8 m189 in1962/634.1 m159 in1963/642.8 m112 in1964/655.1 m199 in1965/665.4 m211 in1966/676.3 m250 in1967/684.7 m184 in1968/693.6 m143 in1969/706.1 m241 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m120 in1971/723.4 m132 in1972/733.9 m155 in1973/745.0 m196 in1974/755.6 m220 in1975/763.1 m124 in1976/775.3 m207 in1977/785.1 m199 in1978/794.1 m162 in1979/805.6 m220 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m170 in1981/825.3 m207 in1982/834.8 m190 in1983/844.5 m176 in1984/854.0 m156 in1985/864.6 m180 in1986/874.7 m185 in1987/885.3 m207 in1988/894.2 m167 in1989/903.9 m152 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m127 in1991/925.5 m216 in1992/934.4 m171 in1993/944.4 m173 in1994/955.6 m221 in1995/962.9 m113 in1996/974.4 m173 in1997/984.0 m157 in1998/995.8 m230 in1999/005.9 m231 in
- 2000s2000/015.4 m214 in2001/024.2 m167 in2002/033.8 m151 in2003/044.2 m164 in2004/053.5 m139 in2005/063.8 m149 in2006/073.5 m136 in2007/085.2 m206 in2008/094.6 m180 in2009/103.3 m130 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m100 in2011/124.9 m194 in2012/134.1 m159 in2013/143.5 m139 in2014/154.1 m160 in2015/163.8 m148 in2016/173.4 m133 in2017/184.6 m180 in2018/195.2 m204 in2019/204.4 m173 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m153 in2021/223.7 m145 in2022/233.7 m147 in2023/246.3 m246 in2024/252.5 m98 in2025/262.8 m109 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