Lech/Zürs, Austria. 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 62% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 4.7 m184 in to 4.0 m158 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 13 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 164 to 156. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 73 to 68. 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−9%
Then
4.5 m177 in
Now
4.1 m161 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
3.5 m137 in
Now
3.0 m118 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
13
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
162
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-10°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
- 1950s1950/515.1 m200 in1951/524.5 m175 in1952/534.6 m181 in1953/543.5 m137 in1954/554.6 m182 in1955/563.8 m149 in1956/572.8 m111 in1957/584.6 m181 in1958/593.5 m137 in1959/604.2 m163 in
- 1960s1960/613.5 m137 in1961/624.8 m187 in1962/634.4 m173 in1963/642.6 m101 in1964/655.0 m196 in1965/665.6 m219 in1966/676.6 m260 in1967/685.1 m202 in1968/693.7 m145 in1969/707.0 m274 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m125 in1971/723.3 m130 in1972/734.5 m176 in1973/745.1 m202 in1974/755.9 m233 in1975/763.5 m137 in1976/775.3 m209 in1977/785.3 m207 in1978/794.2 m163 in1979/805.6 m221 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m185 in1981/826.0 m237 in1982/834.9 m194 in1983/844.5 m176 in1984/854.1 m163 in1985/864.7 m183 in1986/874.7 m187 in1987/885.7 m224 in1988/894.3 m170 in1989/903.4 m134 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m119 in1991/925.4 m214 in1992/933.6 m142 in1993/944.6 m183 in1994/955.5 m218 in1995/963.0 m116 in1996/974.2 m164 in1997/984.2 m164 in1998/996.3 m249 in1999/006.4 m251 in
- 2000s2000/015.2 m204 in2001/023.7 m147 in2002/033.6 m142 in2003/044.2 m163 in2004/053.7 m147 in2005/064.0 m156 in2006/073.2 m126 in2007/085.3 m207 in2008/094.6 m182 in2009/103.2 m127 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m100 in2011/125.2 m206 in2012/134.2 m166 in2013/143.2 m126 in2014/154.0 m156 in2015/163.9 m154 in2016/173.4 m134 in2017/184.6 m181 in2018/194.9 m193 in2019/203.8 m148 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m152 in2021/223.7 m145 in2022/233.3 m130 in2023/245.4 m211 in2024/252.5 m98 in2025/262.7 m107 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