76 winters, day by day
Kolašin 1600, Montenegro. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Kolašin 1600, Montenegro. 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°C22°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−19%
The trend: from 3.1 m122 in to 2.5 m98 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 8 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−44 days
The trend: from 105 to 61. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 55 to 44. 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−11%
Then
2.9 m116 in
Now
2.6 m103 in
- Snowfall in the village−12%
Then
2.6 m102 in
Now
2.3 m90 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−27 days
Then
96
Now
69
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.7°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-4°C25°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 m94 in1951/522.6 m104 in1952/533.8 m148 in1953/543.4 m135 in1954/553.2 m124 in1955/563.3 m130 in1956/572.3 m92 in1957/583.4 m133 in1958/592.0 m77 in1959/602.6 m104 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m51 in1961/623.0 m118 in1962/633.9 m152 in1963/641.5 m57 in1964/653.4 m135 in1965/663.3 m128 in1966/674.0 m158 in1967/683.2 m125 in1968/693.6 m143 in1969/704.6 m183 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m134 in1971/722.4 m95 in1972/732.8 m112 in1973/743.0 m118 in1974/752.0 m78 in1975/762.7 m105 in1976/772.8 m109 in1977/783.1 m123 in1978/792.3 m91 in1979/803.3 m128 in
- 1980s1980/813.7 m146 in1981/823.2 m126 in1982/832.3 m89 in1983/844.1 m160 in1984/852.9 m115 in1985/863.5 m137 in1986/873.7 m144 in1987/882.5 m98 in1988/892.2 m87 in1989/901.3 m52 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/921.8 m71 in1992/932.3 m91 in1993/943.0 m119 in1994/953.0 m116 in1995/963.5 m137 in1996/972.8 m108 in1997/981.7 m65 in1998/993.5 m139 in1999/002.7 m105 in
- 2000s2000/012.4 m95 in2001/022.1 m84 in2002/032.4 m94 in2003/042.8 m108 in2004/054.1 m162 in2005/064.2 m166 in2006/072.4 m96 in2007/082.4 m94 in2008/092.8 m109 in2009/103.4 m132 in
- 2010s2010/111.9 m73 in2011/122.6 m102 in2012/134.1 m160 in2013/141.9 m75 in2014/153.5 m137 in2015/162.2 m87 in2016/171.8 m70 in2017/183.4 m135 in2018/192.4 m94 in2019/201.8 m70 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m155 in2021/222.7 m106 in2022/231.7 m68 in2023/241.2 m46 in2024/251.9 m74 in2025/262.2 m85 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