76 winters, day by day
Le Sauze 1400 / Le Super-Sauze 1700, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Le Sauze 1400 / Le Super-Sauze 1700, 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 59% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+4.0°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 3.7 m146 in to 3.1 m120 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 12 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 160 to 147. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 56 to 45. 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−14%
Then
3.7 m146 in
Now
3.2 m125 in
- Snowfall in the village−32%
Then
1.5 m58 in
Now
1.0 m40 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
12
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
160
Now
152
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/514.6 m181 in1951/522.3 m91 in1952/532.0 m78 in1953/542.2 m87 in1954/554.0 m158 in1955/564.1 m160 in1956/572.8 m112 in1957/583.6 m142 in1958/594.3 m168 in1959/605.6 m221 in
- 1960s1960/612.9 m114 in1961/624.7 m183 in1962/634.7 m185 in1963/643.5 m139 in1964/652.1 m82 in1965/664.0 m156 in1966/672.8 m108 in1967/682.7 m105 in1968/693.8 m148 in1969/704.1 m159 in
- 1970s1970/714.7 m185 in1971/724.6 m183 in1972/732.7 m105 in1973/744.2 m164 in1974/753.1 m121 in1975/763.6 m143 in1976/775.1 m200 in1977/784.9 m194 in1978/794.6 m182 in1979/803.1 m121 in
- 1980s1980/812.9 m113 in1981/823.5 m139 in1982/833.6 m141 in1983/843.3 m130 in1984/853.6 m140 in1985/864.9 m191 in1986/872.6 m104 in1987/883.3 m130 in1988/892.8 m108 in1989/902.5 m98 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m116 in1991/922.1 m83 in1992/932.5 m98 in1993/943.2 m124 in1994/952.5 m100 in1995/964.1 m161 in1996/973.9 m154 in1997/983.5 m137 in1998/992.7 m104 in1999/002.9 m113 in
- 2000s2000/015.0 m197 in2001/021.9 m74 in2002/033.5 m139 in2003/043.4 m133 in2004/051.8 m69 in2005/062.3 m92 in2006/071.6 m62 in2007/083.3 m129 in2008/094.8 m190 in2009/104.1 m159 in
- 2010s2010/113.4 m135 in2011/122.4 m95 in2012/134.3 m168 in2013/144.7 m185 in2014/152.8 m112 in2015/162.2 m87 in2016/172.9 m115 in2017/184.8 m187 in2018/192.6 m104 in2019/203.4 m135 in
- 2020s2020/212.9 m113 in2021/221.9 m73 in2022/232.2 m85 in2023/244.4 m173 in2024/253.4 m132 in2025/262.9 m114 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