Kartalkaya, Turkey. 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 24% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.1°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−13%
The trend: from 1.5 m59 in to 1.3 m51 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−27 days
The trend: from 69 to 41. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 40 to 34. 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
1.4 m56 in
Now
1.3 m52 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
1.4 m55 in
Now
1.3 m51 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
1
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−18 days
Then
62
Now
43
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+1.9°F
Then
-5°C24°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/5199 cm39 in1951/521.6 m62 in1952/531.5 m57 in1953/541.6 m61 in1954/5597 cm38 in1955/561.7 m66 in1956/5799 cm39 in1957/581.6 m65 in1958/591.5 m60 in1959/6097 cm38 in
- 1960s1960/611.2 m46 in1961/621.1 m45 in1962/631.4 m53 in1963/641.1 m45 in1964/651.9 m76 in1965/661.6 m62 in1966/671.4 m53 in1967/682.3 m92 in1968/691.9 m74 in1969/701.5 m58 in
- 1970s1970/711.5 m61 in1971/721.5 m58 in1972/731.2 m48 in1973/741.3 m52 in1974/751.4 m54 in1975/761.6 m62 in1976/771.4 m56 in1977/781.5 m60 in1978/791.0 m39 in1979/801.7 m69 in
- 1980s1980/811.9 m76 in1981/821.3 m51 in1982/831.3 m52 in1983/841.2 m47 in1984/851.6 m64 in1985/861.2 m48 in1986/872.3 m91 in1987/881.4 m54 in1988/891.1 m42 in1989/901.2 m47 in
- 1990s1990/9193 cm37 in1991/921.6 m61 in1992/931.8 m70 in1993/941.1 m44 in1994/951.9 m74 in1995/961.7 m67 in1996/971.5 m60 in1997/981.4 m56 in1998/991.4 m55 in1999/001.8 m71 in
- 2000s2000/0165 cm26 in2001/022.0 m78 in2002/031.1 m42 in2003/041.8 m69 in2004/051.4 m54 in2005/061.6 m61 in2006/071.0 m41 in2007/081.1 m43 in2008/091.9 m75 in2009/101.3 m51 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m44 in2011/122.0 m79 in2012/131.2 m47 in2013/1439 cm15 in2014/151.8 m72 in2015/1697 cm38 in2016/171.5 m59 in2017/181.0 m40 in2018/191.6 m62 in2019/201.2 m46 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m48 in2021/221.7 m65 in2022/2375 cm30 in2023/241.0 m41 in2024/2594 cm37 in2025/261.2 m48 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