SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Kupres, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Kupres
Average winter
2.0 m80 in
Snowiest winter
4.0 m156 in
Leanest winter
84 cm33 in
Powder days a winter
5

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 44% of 736 resorts

+2.0°C+3.7°F

The trend: from -2°C28°F to 0°C31°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-4°25°-2°28°0°32°2°36°

Snowfall at the summit

−22%

The trend: from 2.3 m90 in to 1.8 m71 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 5 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.

0510

Days with a base at the summit

−44 days

The trend: from 67 to 24. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−10 days

The trend: from 45 to 35. Point at a winter to read it.

204060

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

2.1 m85 in

Now

1.9 m74 in

Snowfall in the village−11%

Then

2.3 m89 in

Now

2.0 m78 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

5

Now

4

Days with a base at the summit−23 days

Then

59

Now

36

Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F

Then

-2°C29°F

Now

-1°C31°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
44 cm17 in
Snowiest winter
4.0 m156 in
Leanest winter
84 cm33 in
Deepest snow on the ground
155 cm61 in
Coldest night at the summit
-28°C-18°F
Strongest gust at the summit
121 km/h75 mph

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