Les Ménuires, 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 64% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−6%
The trend: from 4.5 m175 in to 4.2 m165 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 12 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 171 to 167. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−6 days
The trend: from 169 to 163. 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
4.4 m174 in
Now
4.2 m164 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
2.9 m113 in
Now
2.3 m92 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
12
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
171
Now
168
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
169
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-10°C15°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
- 1950s1950/515.4 m211 in1951/524.1 m160 in1952/533.8 m149 in1953/542.8 m108 in1954/555.5 m215 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/572.8 m111 in1957/584.3 m170 in1958/594.2 m167 in1959/604.6 m183 in
- 1960s1960/614.0 m157 in1961/624.9 m194 in1962/635.1 m200 in1963/642.8 m109 in1964/653.3 m128 in1965/666.7 m264 in1966/674.4 m172 in1967/683.9 m153 in1968/694.6 m179 in1969/706.6 m259 in
- 1970s1970/714.0 m158 in1971/724.3 m170 in1972/733.4 m133 in1973/744.0 m158 in1974/754.5 m179 in1975/763.0 m118 in1976/775.7 m222 in1977/786.7 m263 in1978/794.9 m194 in1979/805.5 m218 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m185 in1981/825.4 m211 in1982/835.4 m214 in1983/845.0 m196 in1984/853.7 m145 in1985/865.4 m213 in1986/874.4 m172 in1987/884.9 m194 in1988/893.7 m145 in1989/904.2 m163 in
- 1990s1990/913.5 m137 in1991/923.4 m132 in1992/933.1 m122 in1993/945.0 m197 in1994/955.8 m229 in1995/963.1 m122 in1996/974.6 m182 in1997/984.1 m161 in1998/994.7 m185 in1999/004.5 m176 in
- 2000s2000/015.5 m215 in2001/022.7 m107 in2002/033.8 m148 in2003/044.2 m166 in2004/053.2 m126 in2005/063.8 m148 in2006/073.2 m124 in2007/084.3 m169 in2008/094.6 m179 in2009/104.3 m167 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m109 in2011/124.7 m187 in2012/135.2 m203 in2013/144.2 m167 in2014/153.8 m148 in2015/164.3 m171 in2016/173.7 m145 in2017/186.2 m245 in2018/194.0 m157 in2019/205.5 m215 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m137 in2021/223.4 m134 in2022/233.5 m137 in2023/245.3 m208 in2024/253.8 m150 in2025/263.9 m152 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