Kitzbühel, 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 57% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+4.0°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 3.9 m154 in to 3.5 m139 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 160 to 145. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−19 days
The trend: from 155 to 136. 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−7%
Then
3.8 m151 in
Now
3.6 m141 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
1.8 m69 in
Now
1.4 m57 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
158
Now
148
- Days with a base in the village−13 days
Then
153
Now
140
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C21°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 m203 in1951/523.7 m147 in1952/533.2 m124 in1953/542.9 m113 in1954/553.6 m142 in1955/563.1 m122 in1956/572.9 m115 in1957/583.6 m143 in1958/592.9 m113 in1959/604.0 m156 in
- 1960s1960/612.8 m110 in1961/624.4 m173 in1962/633.2 m124 in1963/642.5 m100 in1964/655.0 m195 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/675.9 m233 in1967/683.9 m154 in1968/692.9 m113 in1969/705.0 m198 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m120 in1971/723.3 m130 in1972/733.9 m153 in1973/744.1 m161 in1974/755.0 m197 in1975/763.0 m119 in1976/775.0 m196 in1977/784.2 m165 in1978/793.8 m149 in1979/804.8 m190 in
- 1980s1980/813.8 m150 in1981/824.4 m171 in1982/833.9 m154 in1983/843.6 m143 in1984/853.4 m135 in1985/864.2 m166 in1986/874.1 m159 in1987/884.1 m163 in1988/893.9 m154 in1989/903.0 m117 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m111 in1991/924.9 m192 in1992/933.5 m137 in1993/943.3 m131 in1994/954.4 m173 in1995/962.7 m106 in1996/973.6 m142 in1997/983.7 m146 in1998/994.2 m167 in1999/004.9 m193 in
- 2000s2000/014.8 m189 in2001/023.6 m141 in2002/032.9 m116 in2003/043.7 m147 in2004/053.2 m126 in2005/063.5 m138 in2006/072.8 m109 in2007/084.1 m161 in2008/094.4 m172 in2009/102.8 m112 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m91 in2011/124.0 m156 in2012/133.9 m152 in2013/143.8 m149 in2014/153.4 m134 in2015/163.3 m131 in2016/173.0 m119 in2017/183.9 m152 in2018/194.7 m183 in2019/203.7 m145 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m136 in2021/223.4 m133 in2022/233.3 m131 in2023/244.6 m179 in2024/252.2 m88 in2025/262.3 m89 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