SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Montecampione, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Montecampione
Average winter
2.6 m102 in
Snowiest winter
6.3 m248 in
Leanest winter
1.1 m43 in
Powder days a winter
7

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 98% of 736 resorts

+3.5°C+6.3°F

The trend: from -6°C21°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°-2°28°

Snowfall at the summit

−26%

The trend: from 3.0 m117 in to 2.2 m87 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 9 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.

0510152025

Days with a base at the summit

−41 days

The trend: from 57 to 16. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 45 to 36. Point at a winter to read it.

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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

2.9 m116 in

Now

2.4 m93 in

Snowfall in the village−33%

Then

74.333 cm29 in

Now

49.767 cm20 in

Powder days at the summit−2 days

Then

9

Now

6

Days with a base at the summit−28 days

Then

51

Now

23

Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.8°F

Then

-6°C22°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

Most snow in a day
41 cm16 in
Snowiest winter
6.3 m248 in
Leanest winter
1.1 m43 in
Deepest snow on the ground
117 cm46 in
Coldest night at the summit
-30°C-23°F
Strongest gust at the summit
111 km/h69 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