76 winters, day by day
Les Contamines, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Les Contamines, 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 53% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−5%
The trend: from 5.7 m224 in to 5.4 m213 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 18 to 18. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 169 to 162. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−3 days
The trend: from 157 to 155. 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
5.6 m222 in
Now
5.3 m209 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
3.0 m117 in
Now
2.6 m101 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
18
Now
17
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
169
Now
164
- Days with a base in the village−1 day
Then
159
Now
157
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°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 in1951/525.4 m212 in1952/535.0 m196 in1953/543.4 m135 in1954/557.0 m276 in1955/564.1 m161 in1956/573.6 m141 in1957/586.2 m244 in1958/594.9 m194 in1959/605.8 m228 in
- 1960s1960/615.0 m198 in1961/626.3 m247 in1962/636.1 m238 in1963/643.0 m117 in1964/654.6 m182 in1965/668.8 m347 in1966/676.5 m255 in1967/685.0 m197 in1968/695.6 m221 in1969/709.1 m359 in
- 1970s1970/714.1 m163 in1971/724.3 m169 in1972/734.5 m176 in1973/744.9 m191 in1974/756.0 m235 in1975/763.3 m131 in1976/777.2 m284 in1977/788.0 m313 in1978/796.6 m259 in1979/808.1 m319 in
- 1980s1980/815.9 m231 in1981/827.5 m296 in1982/836.9 m272 in1983/846.2 m245 in1984/854.6 m182 in1985/866.4 m254 in1986/876.0 m237 in1987/887.1 m281 in1988/894.6 m182 in1989/905.5 m215 in
- 1990s1990/914.3 m169 in1991/924.7 m186 in1992/934.4 m174 in1993/946.7 m263 in1994/958.1 m320 in1995/963.8 m149 in1996/975.8 m228 in1997/984.8 m190 in1998/996.7 m263 in1999/005.9 m233 in
- 2000s2000/016.7 m263 in2001/024.1 m163 in2002/034.8 m190 in2003/045.3 m209 in2004/053.9 m152 in2005/064.9 m194 in2006/074.7 m183 in2007/086.0 m234 in2008/094.7 m186 in2009/104.8 m189 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m122 in2011/125.8 m227 in2012/136.5 m256 in2013/144.7 m187 in2014/154.7 m183 in2015/165.8 m226 in2016/173.9 m155 in2017/187.9 m313 in2018/195.8 m228 in2019/206.9 m272 in
- 2020s2020/214.7 m184 in2021/224.8 m189 in2022/235.1 m200 in2023/247.1 m279 in2024/254.9 m194 in2025/264.6 m182 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