76 winters, day by day
Metabief - Mont d'or, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Metabief - Mont d'or, 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 77% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.7°F
The trend: from -2°C29°F to 1°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 2.1 m84 in to 1.6 m61 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−49 days
The trend: from 65 to 16. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 45 to 33. 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−17%
Then
2.0 m78 in
Now
1.6 m64 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
2.0 m79 in
Now
1.7 m65 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−26 days
Then
53
Now
26
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.8°F
Then
-1°C30°F
Now
0°C32°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m91 in1951/522.0 m80 in1952/532.6 m101 in1953/541.6 m62 in1954/551.8 m72 in1955/561.0 m40 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/582.6 m104 in1958/591.3 m50 in1959/601.6 m64 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m64 in1961/621.8 m69 in1962/632.4 m94 in1963/6458 cm23 in1964/652.0 m77 in1965/662.4 m93 in1966/672.2 m87 in1967/682.9 m115 in1968/691.9 m76 in1969/703.8 m150 in
- 1970s1970/711.2 m45 in1971/721.8 m69 in1972/732.2 m87 in1973/741.5 m61 in1974/751.9 m75 in1975/761.6 m61 in1976/772.1 m84 in1977/783.3 m130 in1978/791.9 m74 in1979/802.2 m87 in
- 1980s1980/813.1 m123 in1981/822.8 m108 in1982/832.6 m104 in1983/842.7 m106 in1984/851.9 m73 in1985/862.5 m97 in1986/872.1 m83 in1987/882.1 m83 in1988/891.7 m68 in1989/9089 cm35 in
- 1990s1990/911.9 m74 in1991/921.3 m52 in1992/9382 cm32 in1993/942.5 m97 in1994/952.1 m83 in1995/961.3 m49 in1996/971.6 m63 in1997/981.4 m56 in1998/993.0 m119 in1999/001.9 m73 in
- 2000s2000/011.4 m54 in2001/021.2 m48 in2002/031.3 m51 in2003/041.8 m72 in2004/052.0 m77 in2005/062.3 m89 in2006/0797 cm38 in2007/081.7 m65 in2008/092.4 m95 in2009/101.5 m61 in
- 2010s2010/111.2 m49 in2011/121.7 m69 in2012/132.7 m107 in2013/141.6 m61 in2014/151.8 m70 in2015/162.1 m84 in2016/171.1 m43 in2017/182.2 m88 in2018/191.6 m63 in2019/201.3 m50 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m81 in2021/221.4 m57 in2022/2357 cm22 in2023/2488 cm35 in2024/2597 cm38 in2025/261.4 m56 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