76 winters, day by day
Las Araucarias (Formerly Llaima), Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
Las Araucarias (Formerly Llaima), Chile. 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 2% of 736 resorts
+0.6°C+1.0°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−3%
The trend: from 4.2 m165 in to 4.1 m160 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 15 to 15. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 104 to 88. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 53 to 49. 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−6%
Then
4.3 m171 in
Now
4.1 m161 in
- Snowfall in the village+3%
Then
3.2 m125 in
Now
3.3 m129 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
16
Now
15
- Days with a base at the summit−13 days
Then
106
Now
92
- Average temperature at the summit+0.4°C+0.8°F
Then
-2°C28°F
Now
-2°C29°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
- 1950s19505.3 m209 in19513.2 m125 in19522.6 m100 in19533.8 m149 in19545.4 m211 in19553.3 m131 in19564.4 m172 in19575.6 m219 in19582.6 m102 in19594.2 m165 in
- 1960s19603.9 m155 in19615.2 m206 in19623.2 m127 in19634.2 m163 in19646.0 m237 in19654.0 m157 in19665.2 m203 in19675.0 m198 in19682.0 m77 in19694.6 m180 in
- 1970s19704.8 m189 in19714.4 m172 in19724.0 m156 in19735.1 m202 in19744.5 m179 in19755.1 m200 in19764.4 m173 in19777.1 m278 in19783.7 m147 in19793.7 m147 in
- 1980s19803.4 m133 in19812.4 m96 in19824.8 m189 in19834.4 m172 in19845.3 m207 in19851.6 m64 in19862.5 m99 in19872.6 m100 in19885.0 m197 in19894.5 m176 in
- 1990s19902.3 m89 in19913.3 m131 in19924.8 m191 in19933.3 m128 in19943.7 m146 in19956.6 m261 in19962.3 m91 in19974.0 m159 in19982.4 m93 in19994.3 m169 in
- 2000s20005.1 m202 in20013.8 m149 in20024.4 m173 in20033.2 m124 in20043.9 m152 in20053.6 m142 in20064.3 m167 in20076.3 m249 in20084.2 m166 in20094.3 m169 in
- 2010s20105.1 m202 in20115.4 m211 in20122.5 m99 in20132.9 m116 in20144.9 m193 in20154.4 m171 in20162.1 m82 in20176.0 m236 in20184.1 m161 in20194.8 m190 in
- 2020s20205.3 m210 in20213.2 m124 in20225.2 m204 in20233.8 m149 in20243.9 m152 in20252.8 m111 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