Masella, Spain. 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 69% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−33%
The trend: from 1.0 m40 in to 69 cm27 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 10 to -1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 24 to 18. 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−20%
Then
95.767 cm38 in
Now
76.3 cm30 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
81.1 cm32 in
Now
63.533 cm25 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
8
Now
2
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-4°C24°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m79 in1951/5262 cm24 in1952/5359 cm23 in1953/5489 cm35 in1954/5564 cm25 in1955/5674 cm29 in1956/5778 cm31 in1957/5885 cm33 in1958/591.3 m52 in1959/6082 cm32 in
- 1960s1960/611.1 m41 in1961/6284 cm33 in1962/631.1 m44 in1963/6473 cm29 in1964/6587 cm34 in1965/6668 cm27 in1966/6780 cm31 in1967/6899 cm39 in1968/691.5 m60 in1969/701.1 m41 in
- 1970s1970/711.0 m41 in1971/721.6 m61 in1972/7384 cm33 in1973/741.0 m39 in1974/7593 cm37 in1975/7653 cm21 in1976/7777 cm30 in1977/781.3 m52 in1978/791.1 m45 in1979/8072 cm28 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m51 in1981/821.3 m49 in1982/8383 cm33 in1983/841.0 m41 in1984/8534 cm13 in1985/861.4 m56 in1986/8781 cm32 in1987/8848 cm19 in1988/8954 cm21 in1989/9029 cm11 in
- 1990s1990/911.0 m39 in1991/921.1 m42 in1992/9372 cm28 in1993/9495 cm37 in1994/9538 cm15 in1995/9684 cm33 in1996/971.1 m42 in1997/9860 cm24 in1998/991.1 m44 in1999/0045 cm18 in
- 2000s2000/0163 cm25 in2001/021.1 m41 in2002/031.2 m47 in2003/041.2 m46 in2004/0557 cm22 in2005/0698 cm39 in2006/0736 cm14 in2007/0861 cm24 in2008/091.3 m52 in2009/101.4 m53 in
- 2010s2010/1158 cm23 in2011/1229 cm11 in2012/1388 cm35 in2013/1465 cm26 in2014/1557 cm22 in2015/1654 cm21 in2016/1774 cm29 in2017/181.5 m57 in2018/1945 cm18 in2019/2087 cm34 in
- 2020s2020/2149 cm19 in2021/2251 cm20 in2022/2336 cm14 in2023/2445 cm18 in2024/2553 cm21 in2025/261.1 m42 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