76 winters, day by day
Kayseri-Erciyes, Turkey. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Kayseri-Erciyes, 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 9% of 736 resorts
+1.3°C+2.3°F
The trend: from -11°C13°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 1.2 m48 in to 1.1 m44 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−20 days
The trend: from 47 to 26. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 32 to 28. 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−10%
Then
1.2 m47 in
Now
1.1 m42 in
- Snowfall in the village−9%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
1.1 m42 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−16 days
Then
43
Now
27
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.5°F
Then
-10°C13°F
Now
-10°C15°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
- 1950s1950/5160 cm24 in1951/521.2 m48 in1952/531.3 m50 in1953/541.6 m65 in1954/5592 cm36 in1955/561.5 m57 in1956/5792 cm36 in1957/5894 cm37 in1958/591.0 m41 in1959/6069 cm27 in
- 1960s1960/6164 cm25 in1961/621.2 m46 in1962/631.2 m47 in1963/6473 cm29 in1964/651.1 m43 in1965/661.4 m56 in1966/671.5 m61 in1967/681.6 m61 in1968/691.7 m69 in1969/701.3 m51 in
- 1970s1970/7178 cm31 in1971/721.3 m51 in1972/7393 cm37 in1973/741.0 m40 in1974/751.7 m67 in1975/761.3 m52 in1976/771.6 m65 in1977/781.6 m63 in1978/7990 cm35 in1979/801.5 m61 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m59 in1981/821.0 m41 in1982/831.4 m56 in1983/8473 cm29 in1984/851.3 m50 in1985/8698 cm39 in1986/871.9 m75 in1987/881.8 m70 in1988/8986 cm34 in1989/9083 cm33 in
- 1990s1990/9199 cm39 in1991/921.6 m61 in1992/931.5 m59 in1993/9492 cm36 in1994/951.4 m53 in1995/961.3 m52 in1996/9798 cm39 in1997/981.2 m48 in1998/9985 cm33 in1999/001.5 m57 in
- 2000s2000/0161 cm24 in2001/021.3 m52 in2002/031.2 m46 in2003/041.2 m47 in2004/051.1 m45 in2005/0676 cm30 in2006/0792 cm36 in2007/081.0 m41 in2008/091.4 m54 in2009/1081 cm32 in
- 2010s2010/111.0 m39 in2011/121.7 m65 in2012/1397 cm38 in2013/1432 cm13 in2014/151.6 m63 in2015/161.0 m41 in2016/171.1 m44 in2017/1880 cm31 in2018/191.6 m65 in2019/201.4 m53 in
- 2020s2020/211.0 m40 in2021/221.4 m56 in2022/2357 cm22 in2023/2443 cm17 in2024/251.2 m46 in2025/261.3 m52 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