76 winters, day by day
Klimpfjällsbackarna, Sweden. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Klimpfjällsbackarna, 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 74% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+17%
The trend: from 2.9 m114 in to 3.4 m133 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 3 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 177 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+12 days
The trend: from 72 to 84. 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+12%
Then
2.9 m115 in
Now
3.3 m129 in
- Snowfall in the village+6%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.3 m92 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
173
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.8°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m96 in1951/523.2 m124 in1952/534.2 m165 in1953/542.3 m92 in1954/552.9 m115 in1955/562.5 m98 in1956/572.5 m99 in1957/582.5 m100 in1958/593.1 m121 in1959/602.5 m96 in
- 1960s1960/613.8 m150 in1961/622.9 m115 in1962/632.1 m84 in1963/642.6 m104 in1964/653.1 m120 in1965/662.3 m90 in1966/673.2 m127 in1967/683.3 m130 in1968/692.4 m93 in1969/702.0 m80 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m134 in1971/723.5 m136 in1972/734.6 m179 in1973/743.1 m123 in1974/753.2 m128 in1975/763.8 m150 in1976/772.5 m96 in1977/783.0 m119 in1978/792.6 m102 in1979/802.5 m96 in
- 1980s1980/813.4 m132 in1981/823.0 m117 in1982/833.2 m126 in1983/843.2 m126 in1984/852.4 m93 in1985/862.2 m87 in1986/873.0 m116 in1987/883.3 m128 in1988/894.7 m187 in1989/904.4 m173 in
- 1990s1990/913.4 m134 in1991/924.2 m166 in1992/934.4 m172 in1993/942.3 m91 in1994/953.9 m155 in1995/961.5 m61 in1996/974.7 m187 in1997/983.5 m139 in1998/992.8 m110 in1999/003.4 m133 in
- 2000s2000/013.0 m118 in2001/024.0 m158 in2002/033.1 m122 in2003/043.1 m120 in2004/053.2 m125 in2005/062.3 m92 in2006/073.8 m148 in2007/083.2 m127 in2008/092.8 m110 in2009/102.4 m94 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m106 in2011/123.8 m151 in2012/132.3 m91 in2013/143.8 m149 in2014/154.8 m188 in2015/162.7 m107 in2016/173.9 m154 in2017/182.9 m116 in2018/193.0 m118 in2019/204.5 m176 in
- 2020s2020/213.2 m124 in2021/223.5 m139 in2022/232.5 m100 in2023/243.1 m122 in2024/253.5 m136 in2025/262.7 m106 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