SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Kopaonik, Serbia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Kopaonik
Painting of Kopaonik
Average winter
1.3 m51 in
Snowiest winter
2.1 m84 in
1983/84
Leanest winter
59 cm23 in
1971/72
Powder days a winter
2

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 49% of 736 resorts

+2.1°C+3.8°F

The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°-2°28°

Snowfall at the summit

−7%

The trend: from 1.4 m53 in to 1.3 m49 in. Point at a winter to read it.

50 cm20 in1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in2.0 m79 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.

0246

Days with a base at the summit

−24 days

The trend: from 34 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.

020406080

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−6 days

The trend: from 36 to 29. Point at a winter to read it.

20304050

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−2%

Then

1.3 m50 in

Now

1.3 m49 in

Snowfall in the village−2%

Then

1.3 m50 in

Now

1.2 m49 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

1

Now

2

Days with a base at the summit−13 days

Then

28

Now

15

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F

Then

-5°C22°F

Now

-4°C24°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

Most snow in a day
29 cm11 in
15 November 1981
Snowiest winter
2.1 m84 in
1983/84
Leanest winter
59 cm23 in
1971/72
Deepest snow on the ground
103 cm41 in
13 February 2012
Coldest night at the summit
-35°C-31°F
9 February 1956
Strongest gust at the summit
102 km/h64 mph
30 January 2015

All winters

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