76 winters, day by day
Les Deux Alpes, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Les Deux Alpes, 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 30% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -15°C6°F to -13°C9°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 4.6 m180 in to 4.3 m168 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 14 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 165 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−3 days
The trend: from 159 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
4.6 m179 in
Now
4.3 m168 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
3.0 m118 in
Now
2.6 m101 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
14
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
166
Now
162
- Days with a base in the village−2 days
Then
160
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-14°C6°F
Now
-13°C8°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
- 1950s1950/515.8 m228 in1951/524.1 m163 in1952/533.7 m146 in1953/542.8 m109 in1954/556.0 m237 in1955/563.5 m137 in1956/572.9 m115 in1957/584.4 m173 in1958/594.4 m171 in1959/605.2 m203 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m161 in1961/625.3 m208 in1962/635.2 m204 in1963/643.3 m131 in1964/653.1 m122 in1965/666.7 m265 in1966/674.4 m173 in1967/684.0 m156 in1968/694.6 m180 in1969/706.5 m256 in
- 1970s1970/714.3 m170 in1971/724.5 m176 in1972/733.4 m132 in1973/744.0 m157 in1974/754.2 m167 in1975/763.2 m124 in1976/776.1 m239 in1977/786.6 m259 in1978/795.3 m209 in1979/805.2 m204 in
- 1980s1980/814.5 m176 in1981/825.1 m200 in1982/835.4 m213 in1983/844.9 m194 in1984/854.1 m162 in1985/865.6 m222 in1986/873.9 m154 in1987/884.9 m191 in1988/893.7 m146 in1989/904.2 m163 in
- 1990s1990/913.8 m148 in1991/923.4 m133 in1992/933.1 m121 in1993/944.9 m191 in1994/955.7 m222 in1995/963.8 m150 in1996/974.9 m193 in1997/984.6 m180 in1998/994.6 m183 in1999/004.5 m175 in
- 2000s2000/016.2 m243 in2001/022.6 m101 in2002/034.0 m159 in2003/044.1 m160 in2004/053.1 m121 in2005/063.9 m155 in2006/073.2 m124 in2007/084.6 m179 in2008/094.2 m165 in2009/104.7 m185 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m121 in2011/124.5 m176 in2012/135.1 m202 in2013/144.7 m183 in2014/153.9 m153 in2015/164.1 m162 in2016/173.8 m149 in2017/186.1 m238 in2018/194.1 m161 in2019/205.4 m212 in
- 2020s2020/213.7 m145 in2021/223.3 m128 in2022/233.6 m143 in2023/245.7 m224 in2024/254.2 m165 in2025/264.0 m157 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