Luz-Ardiden, 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 -5°C23°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 3.7 m145 in to 3.2 m128 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 8 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−41 days
The trend: from 153 to 112. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−64 days
The trend: from 143 to 80. 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
3.7 m146 in
Now
3.3 m132 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
2.4 m96 in
Now
2.2 m86 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−25 days
Then
148
Now
123
- Days with a base in the village−41 days
Then
136
Now
95
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-5°C24°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/514.6 m180 in1951/523.8 m151 in1952/532.8 m111 in1953/542.8 m112 in1954/552.9 m112 in1955/563.1 m122 in1956/572.3 m92 in1957/583.6 m141 in1958/593.8 m151 in1959/604.0 m157 in
- 1960s1960/613.3 m130 in1961/623.7 m144 in1962/634.1 m161 in1963/643.0 m118 in1964/653.8 m149 in1965/664.5 m178 in1966/674.1 m161 in1967/684.2 m167 in1968/693.8 m151 in1969/704.3 m171 in
- 1970s1970/713.7 m146 in1971/725.4 m211 in1972/733.5 m137 in1973/744.2 m166 in1974/752.8 m109 in1975/762.9 m116 in1976/773.8 m150 in1977/784.5 m178 in1978/794.7 m187 in1979/803.1 m121 in
- 1980s1980/814.0 m156 in1981/823.9 m155 in1982/833.4 m133 in1983/843.7 m145 in1984/853.2 m127 in1985/864.6 m180 in1986/873.1 m122 in1987/883.4 m133 in1988/892.7 m107 in1989/902.3 m90 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m125 in1991/922.4 m95 in1992/932.1 m82 in1993/944.0 m156 in1994/952.8 m111 in1995/963.4 m133 in1996/973.1 m122 in1997/983.3 m129 in1998/993.1 m123 in1999/002.9 m115 in
- 2000s2000/014.1 m160 in2001/022.8 m111 in2002/034.1 m163 in2003/043.5 m137 in2004/052.9 m113 in2005/062.9 m112 in2006/072.6 m102 in2007/083.0 m116 in2008/094.4 m175 in2009/103.8 m148 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m105 in2011/122.4 m93 in2012/134.7 m186 in2013/144.5 m178 in2014/153.6 m143 in2015/163.7 m144 in2016/173.3 m128 in2017/184.6 m180 in2018/193.0 m117 in2019/203.3 m128 in
- 2020s2020/213.0 m118 in2021/223.7 m146 in2022/232.3 m92 in2023/243.1 m120 in2024/252.4 m95 in2025/263.8 m150 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