76 winters, day by day
Melchsee-Frutt, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Melchsee-Frutt, Switzerland. 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 41% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 5.2 m203 in to 4.5 m179 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 15 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 182 to 180. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−12 days
The trend: from 156 to 144. 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−8%
Then
5.0 m198 in
Now
4.6 m182 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
2.9 m115 in
Now
2.4 m95 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−7 days
Then
155
Now
148
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/516.4 m253 in1951/525.2 m206 in1952/534.8 m189 in1953/543.6 m140 in1954/555.3 m207 in1955/563.7 m147 in1956/572.9 m112 in1957/585.6 m220 in1958/594.1 m161 in1959/604.9 m192 in
- 1960s1960/614.4 m171 in1961/625.1 m202 in1962/635.5 m216 in1963/643.4 m132 in1964/654.7 m185 in1965/666.5 m254 in1966/676.2 m245 in1967/685.8 m228 in1968/694.5 m176 in1969/707.7 m304 in
- 1970s1970/713.6 m142 in1971/724.2 m165 in1972/734.4 m173 in1973/744.6 m181 in1974/756.4 m251 in1975/763.5 m136 in1976/776.7 m263 in1977/786.2 m245 in1978/795.2 m203 in1979/806.0 m236 in
- 1980s1980/815.0 m196 in1981/826.5 m254 in1982/835.5 m218 in1983/845.0 m196 in1984/854.3 m169 in1985/865.8 m228 in1986/875.1 m202 in1987/885.6 m219 in1988/895.0 m196 in1989/903.9 m152 in
- 1990s1990/914.3 m170 in1991/925.2 m203 in1992/933.7 m145 in1993/945.1 m200 in1994/956.2 m244 in1995/963.3 m129 in1996/974.6 m183 in1997/984.9 m194 in1998/996.8 m267 in1999/005.7 m222 in
- 2000s2000/016.5 m256 in2001/023.5 m137 in2002/034.8 m189 in2003/044.8 m189 in2004/053.7 m146 in2005/064.2 m166 in2006/073.5 m138 in2007/085.1 m202 in2008/095.3 m208 in2009/103.8 m151 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m112 in2011/125.6 m219 in2012/135.4 m211 in2013/144.5 m179 in2014/155.0 m195 in2015/164.6 m183 in2016/173.5 m139 in2017/185.5 m215 in2018/194.9 m192 in2019/204.5 m175 in
- 2020s2020/214.2 m167 in2021/223.9 m153 in2022/233.6 m140 in2023/246.3 m249 in2024/253.8 m149 in2025/263.5 m136 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