SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Morgins, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Morgins
Average winter
3.3 m128 in
Snowiest winter
5.9 m233 in
Leanest winter
1.5 m59 in
Powder days a winter
8

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 67% of 736 resorts

+2.4°C+4.3°F

The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−14%

The trend: from 3.5 m137 in to 3.0 m119 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−2 days

The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.

5101520

Days with a base at the summit

−8 days

The trend: from 154 to 146. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

Days with a base in the village

−5 days

The trend: from 155 to 150. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

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−10%

Then

3.4 m134 in

Now

3.1 m120 in

Snowfall in the village−13%

Then

2.7 m108 in

Now

2.4 m94 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

9

Now

8

Days with a base at the summit−5 days

Then

154

Now

149

Days with a base in the village−3 days

Then

156

Now

153

Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F

Then

-7°C19°F

Now

-6°C21°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
34 cm13 in
Snowiest winter
5.9 m233 in
Leanest winter
1.5 m59 in
Deepest snow on the ground
293 cm115 in
Coldest night at the summit
-34°C-29°F
Strongest gust at the summit
133 km/h82 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