Les 7 Laux, 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 54% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -8°C17°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−13%
The trend: from 3.4 m135 in to 3.0 m118 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 159 to 153. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−16 days
The trend: from 140 to 124. 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−10%
Then
3.4 m132 in
Now
3.0 m120 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
159
Now
156
- Days with a base in the village−8 days
Then
139
Now
130
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/514.4 m171 in1951/523.2 m125 in1952/533.3 m129 in1953/542.1 m82 in1954/554.0 m156 in1955/562.1 m83 in1956/571.7 m67 in1957/583.4 m133 in1958/592.6 m101 in1959/603.2 m126 in
- 1960s1960/613.1 m122 in1961/623.2 m127 in1962/634.1 m161 in1963/641.7 m68 in1964/653.1 m120 in1965/664.8 m187 in1966/673.5 m137 in1967/683.5 m139 in1968/693.2 m126 in1969/705.5 m216 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m132 in1971/723.6 m142 in1972/732.9 m114 in1973/742.8 m111 in1974/753.5 m137 in1975/762.9 m115 in1976/773.8 m148 in1977/785.3 m209 in1978/793.2 m125 in1979/804.0 m156 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m167 in1981/823.8 m151 in1982/834.0 m156 in1983/844.1 m163 in1984/853.3 m128 in1985/864.0 m157 in1986/873.3 m129 in1987/883.6 m142 in1988/892.9 m112 in1989/902.2 m86 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m117 in1991/922.5 m98 in1992/931.8 m70 in1993/944.0 m156 in1994/954.0 m158 in1995/962.3 m92 in1996/973.1 m120 in1997/983.3 m129 in1998/994.4 m173 in1999/003.6 m142 in
- 2000s2000/013.5 m137 in2001/021.9 m76 in2002/032.5 m99 in2003/043.0 m119 in2004/053.1 m124 in2005/062.8 m111 in2006/072.2 m88 in2007/083.4 m133 in2008/093.2 m127 in2009/103.2 m125 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m90 in2011/123.3 m130 in2012/134.1 m163 in2013/143.6 m140 in2014/152.8 m109 in2015/163.0 m120 in2016/172.2 m88 in2017/184.0 m159 in2018/193.3 m128 in2019/203.0 m119 in
- 2020s2020/213.0 m120 in2021/222.8 m111 in2022/231.8 m69 in2023/242.9 m116 in2024/252.6 m101 in2025/263.1 m122 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