Las Leñas, 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 0% of 736 resorts
+0.3°C+0.6°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+3%
The trend: from 3.6 m141 in to 3.7 m144 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 11 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 151 to 152. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
+2 days
The trend: from 149 to 151. 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+4%
Then
3.4 m136 in
Now
3.6 m141 in
- Snowfall in the village+4%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.3 m90 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
11
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
151
Now
151
- Days with a base in the village+1 day
Then
149
Now
150
- Average temperature at the summit+0.2°C+0.3°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s19502.9 m115 in19514.0 m156 in19522.4 m96 in19534.1 m160 in19546.4 m252 in19551.0 m40 in19563.2 m125 in19574.0 m159 in19582.9 m114 in19593.8 m150 in
- 1960s19602.8 m109 in19614.4 m172 in19622.5 m99 in19634.8 m188 in19642.5 m100 in19654.2 m165 in19663.1 m121 in19671.8 m71 in196885 cm33 in19694.2 m165 in
- 1970s19701.8 m72 in19712.4 m94 in19725.9 m231 in19732.7 m106 in19743.4 m134 in19753.6 m140 in19763.0 m118 in19774.2 m165 in19785.6 m220 in19795.0 m195 in
- 1980s19803.0 m120 in19812.8 m109 in19829.0 m352 in19833.7 m145 in19845.4 m211 in19851.9 m76 in19864.2 m165 in19876.4 m251 in19883.0 m118 in19893.7 m144 in
- 1990s19902.2 m85 in19913.3 m130 in19923.7 m147 in19933.5 m138 in19944.4 m172 in19954.8 m187 in19961.8 m71 in19976.0 m236 in199899 cm39 in19993.7 m147 in
- 2000s20006.1 m240 in20014.9 m194 in20025.6 m220 in20032.8 m109 in20043.0 m119 in20056.3 m248 in20066.2 m244 in20073.1 m122 in20083.3 m128 in20094.2 m165 in
- 2010s20102.4 m94 in20112.6 m102 in20122.7 m104 in20132.1 m84 in20143.0 m118 in20154.1 m161 in20162.3 m90 in20173.4 m133 in20183.2 m125 in20191.7 m68 in
- 2020s20203.9 m155 in20212.4 m95 in20222.2 m86 in20237.1 m280 in20244.1 m162 in20252.2 m87 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