La Hoya, Argentina. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 4% of 736 resorts
+0.9°C+1.6°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 2.0 m80 in to 1.9 m73 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 4 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 93 to 86. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 41 to 38. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit−8%
Then
2.1 m81 in
Now
1.9 m74 in
- Snowfall in the village+1%
Then
1.8 m71 in
Now
1.8 m72 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
4
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
93
Now
85
- Average temperature at the summit+0.7°C+1.2°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C22°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
- 1950s19502.2 m86 in19512.0 m80 in19521.5 m57 in19532.9 m115 in19542.4 m93 in19551.1 m44 in19561.7 m67 in19571.9 m76 in19582.1 m83 in19592.0 m78 in
- 1960s19602.4 m93 in19612.2 m88 in19621.3 m53 in19631.2 m48 in19642.0 m80 in19651.8 m70 in19662.3 m92 in19672.6 m103 in19681.0 m41 in19693.2 m125 in
- 1970s19701.8 m71 in19713.3 m131 in19721.7 m65 in19732.3 m90 in19741.3 m52 in19752.8 m112 in19761.9 m76 in19772.5 m96 in19782.0 m80 in19792.0 m80 in
- 1980s19802.3 m89 in19811.7 m65 in19822.0 m80 in19832.4 m96 in19841.8 m71 in19851.2 m49 in19861.3 m52 in19871.5 m59 in19881.8 m72 in19891.7 m65 in
- 1990s19901.3 m53 in19911.8 m72 in19922.2 m85 in19931.6 m63 in19941.6 m62 in19952.8 m109 in19961.1 m43 in19971.2 m49 in19981.5 m58 in19991.7 m67 in
- 2000s20002.8 m111 in20012.5 m99 in20021.7 m66 in20031.9 m73 in20042.0 m80 in20051.8 m71 in20062.4 m95 in20072.5 m98 in20081.5 m59 in20091.5 m61 in
- 2010s20102.1 m81 in20111.7 m65 in20122.0 m78 in20132.0 m80 in20141.7 m65 in20151.7 m69 in20161.1 m41 in20172.7 m104 in20182.2 m86 in20192.2 m86 in
- 2020s20202.2 m85 in20211.3 m51 in20223.2 m125 in20232.2 m85 in20241.5 m61 in202582 cm32 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