76 winters, day by day
Le Grand Massif, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Le Grand Massif, 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 48% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 5.8 m226 in to 5.4 m211 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 19 to 18. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 171 to 165. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−6 days
The trend: from 162 to 156. 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−6%
Then
5.7 m223 in
Now
5.3 m209 in
- Snowfall in the village−26%
Then
1.3 m50 in
Now
94.433 cm37 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
18
Now
18
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
170
Now
166
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
162
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-9°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/516.6 m259 in1951/525.7 m222 in1952/535.2 m204 in1953/543.5 m139 in1954/556.5 m257 in1955/564.1 m162 in1956/573.5 m139 in1957/586.3 m246 in1958/594.7 m185 in1959/605.9 m231 in
- 1960s1960/615.1 m199 in1961/626.0 m235 in1962/635.9 m234 in1963/643.0 m117 in1964/655.2 m204 in1965/668.8 m347 in1966/676.7 m262 in1967/685.4 m213 in1968/695.7 m223 in1969/709.6 m378 in
- 1970s1970/714.2 m163 in1971/724.2 m166 in1972/734.6 m181 in1973/744.9 m193 in1974/756.2 m244 in1975/763.4 m133 in1976/777.2 m284 in1977/787.9 m309 in1978/796.5 m255 in1979/807.9 m310 in
- 1980s1980/815.9 m231 in1981/827.6 m300 in1982/836.9 m272 in1983/846.2 m246 in1984/855.0 m197 in1985/866.4 m252 in1986/876.1 m241 in1987/887.1 m280 in1988/894.7 m185 in1989/904.9 m194 in
- 1990s1990/914.3 m170 in1991/925.0 m195 in1992/934.1 m161 in1993/946.7 m265 in1994/958.1 m317 in1995/963.8 m149 in1996/975.6 m222 in1997/984.9 m194 in1998/997.0 m274 in1999/006.1 m239 in
- 2000s2000/016.9 m270 in2001/024.2 m166 in2002/035.0 m196 in2003/045.2 m206 in2004/054.2 m163 in2005/065.0 m198 in2006/074.6 m182 in2007/086.1 m242 in2008/094.6 m183 in2009/104.8 m188 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m123 in2011/125.8 m229 in2012/136.9 m272 in2013/144.9 m192 in2014/154.7 m185 in2015/165.9 m232 in2016/173.7 m147 in2017/187.6 m300 in2018/195.8 m226 in2019/206.5 m256 in
- 2020s2020/214.8 m189 in2021/224.8 m190 in2022/235.0 m195 in2023/246.6 m261 in2024/254.6 m179 in2025/264.7 m185 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