76 winters, day by day
La Bresse - Hohneck, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
La Bresse - Hohneck, France. 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 69% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to 0°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−38%
The trend: from 1.1 m44 in to 70 cm28 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−24 days
The trend: from 24 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 31 to 21. 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−23%
Then
1.0 m40 in
Now
78.6 cm31 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
1.0 m41 in
Now
78.967 cm31 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−15 days
Then
20
Now
4
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-2°C29°F
Now
0°C32°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
- 1950s1950/511.0 m41 in1951/521.4 m54 in1952/531.6 m63 in1953/5485 cm33 in1954/5597 cm38 in1955/5657 cm22 in1956/5750 cm20 in1957/581.5 m58 in1958/5994 cm37 in1959/6070 cm28 in
- 1960s1960/6172 cm28 in1961/6280 cm31 in1962/631.2 m46 in1963/6443 cm17 in1964/651.3 m52 in1965/661.0 m40 in1966/6797 cm38 in1967/681.8 m72 in1968/691.3 m50 in1969/702.1 m81 in
- 1970s1970/7141 cm16 in1971/7273 cm29 in1972/731.1 m44 in1973/7469 cm27 in1974/7593 cm37 in1975/7694 cm37 in1976/7797 cm38 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/7989 cm35 in1979/8078 cm31 in
- 1980s1980/811.8 m69 in1981/821.5 m58 in1982/831.2 m48 in1983/841.3 m50 in1984/8573 cm29 in1985/861.5 m60 in1986/871.0 m39 in1987/8889 cm35 in1988/8968 cm27 in1989/9028 cm11 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m42 in1991/9255 cm22 in1992/9338 cm15 in1993/941.1 m42 in1994/9594 cm37 in1995/9647 cm19 in1996/9761 cm24 in1997/9840 cm16 in1998/991.5 m58 in1999/001.0 m41 in
- 2000s2000/0166 cm26 in2001/0272 cm28 in2002/0357 cm22 in2003/0486 cm34 in2004/0596 cm38 in2005/061.5 m59 in2006/0756 cm22 in2007/0873 cm29 in2008/091.1 m41 in2009/1096 cm38 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m43 in2011/1271 cm28 in2012/131.1 m42 in2013/1443 cm17 in2014/1583 cm33 in2015/161.0 m41 in2016/1750 cm20 in2017/181.1 m42 in2018/1965 cm26 in2019/2052 cm20 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m49 in2021/2272 cm28 in2022/2330 cm12 in2023/2432 cm13 in2024/2542 cm17 in2025/2658 cm23 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