Kittelfjäll, Sweden. 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 83% of 736 resorts
+2.7°C+4.9°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+11%
The trend: from 2.1 m83 in to 2.4 m93 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
−12 days
The trend: from 173 to 160. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+10 days
The trend: from 59 to 69. 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
2.1 m84 in
Now
2.3 m91 in
- Snowfall in the village+3%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.7 m69 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
169
Now
163
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.0°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/512.2 m85 in1951/522.2 m87 in1952/532.7 m107 in1953/541.5 m58 in1954/552.1 m84 in1955/562.0 m78 in1956/571.7 m68 in1957/581.7 m66 in1958/592.0 m80 in1959/602.2 m88 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m104 in1961/622.2 m85 in1962/631.3 m52 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/652.3 m89 in1965/662.0 m79 in1966/672.6 m104 in1967/682.3 m89 in1968/691.7 m68 in1969/701.9 m75 in
- 1970s1970/712.6 m101 in1971/722.4 m96 in1972/733.1 m122 in1973/742.1 m83 in1974/752.5 m100 in1975/762.4 m93 in1976/772.1 m83 in1977/782.2 m87 in1978/791.9 m74 in1979/801.8 m69 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m86 in1981/822.0 m78 in1982/832.3 m89 in1983/842.0 m78 in1984/852.0 m80 in1985/861.9 m75 in1986/872.1 m83 in1987/882.8 m108 in1988/893.0 m119 in1989/903.0 m117 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/922.8 m111 in1992/933.0 m118 in1993/941.9 m74 in1994/952.7 m105 in1995/9696 cm38 in1996/973.2 m125 in1997/982.6 m103 in1998/992.0 m80 in1999/002.3 m91 in
- 2000s2000/012.6 m101 in2001/022.4 m96 in2002/032.0 m80 in2003/042.2 m85 in2004/052.0 m78 in2005/061.9 m73 in2006/072.5 m99 in2007/082.7 m105 in2008/091.9 m75 in2009/102.1 m81 in
- 2010s2010/111.6 m64 in2011/122.5 m99 in2012/131.7 m66 in2013/142.5 m99 in2014/153.3 m131 in2015/162.1 m82 in2016/172.4 m94 in2017/182.5 m96 in2018/192.1 m84 in2019/202.9 m113 in
- 2020s2020/212.4 m93 in2021/222.2 m86 in2022/231.9 m75 in2023/242.5 m96 in2024/252.2 m87 in2025/262.1 m81 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