SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Meiringen - Hasliberg, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Meiringen - Hasliberg
Average winter
4.9 m191 in
Snowiest winter
7.7 m304 in
Leanest winter
2.8 m112 in
Powder days a winter
14

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 32% of 736 resorts

+1.9°C+3.4°F

The trend: from -8°C17°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°

Snowfall at the summit

−12%

The trend: from 5.2 m203 in to 4.5 m179 in. Point at a winter to read it.

4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in8.0 m315 in

Powder days at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 15 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.

1020

Days with a base at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 182 to 180. Point at a winter to read it.

165170175180

Days with a base in the village

−11 days

The trend: from 165 to 154. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

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−8%

Then

5.0 m198 in

Now

4.6 m182 in

Snowfall in the village−19%

Then

2.4 m94 in

Now

2.0 m77 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

14

Now

13

Days with a base at the summit−1 day

Then

181

Now

181

Days with a base in the village−6 days

Then

163

Now

157

Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F

Then

-8°C18°F

Now

-7°C20°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

Most snow in a day
46 cm18 in
Snowiest winter
7.7 m304 in
Leanest winter
2.8 m112 in
Deepest snow on the ground
2,197 cm865 in
Coldest night at the summit
-30°C-23°F
Strongest gust at the summit
150 km/h93 mph

All winters

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