Mount Hotham, Australia. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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.
Loading the daily snowfall…
Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 4% of 736 resorts
+0.8°C+1.4°F
The trend: from 0°C32°F to 1°C34°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−19%
The trend: from 84 cm33 in to 68 cm27 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 2 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 22 to 16. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit−18%
Then
79.567 cm31 in
Now
65.633 cm26 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
83.233 cm33 in
Now
66.3 cm26 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.0°F
Then
0°C33°F
Now
1°C34°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
- 1950s195030 cm12 in195193 cm37 in195240 cm16 in195397 cm38 in195436 cm14 in19551.0 m40 in19561.5 m60 in195755 cm22 in195865 cm26 in195957 cm22 in
- 1960s19601.0 m41 in196144 cm17 in196249 cm19 in196348 cm19 in19641.1 m45 in196551 cm20 in196695 cm37 in196734 cm13 in19681.3 m50 in196959 cm23 in
- 1970s19701.2 m47 in197191 cm36 in19721.1 m44 in197348 cm19 in19741.2 m47 in197568 cm27 in197680 cm31 in19771.2 m49 in197898 cm39 in197976 cm30 in
- 1980s198080 cm31 in19811.9 m75 in198249 cm19 in198379 cm31 in19841.0 m40 in198591 cm36 in198676 cm30 in198768 cm27 in198830 cm12 in19891.2 m48 in
- 1990s19901.6 m62 in19911.0 m40 in19921.1 m45 in199330 cm12 in199458 cm23 in199581 cm32 in199675 cm30 in199735 cm14 in199877 cm30 in199938 cm15 in
- 2000s200078 cm31 in200172 cm28 in200241 cm16 in20031.0 m40 in200485 cm33 in200582 cm32 in200610 cm4 in200757 cm22 in200868 cm27 in200954 cm21 in
- 2010s201086 cm34 in201165 cm26 in201275 cm30 in201361 cm24 in201470 cm28 in201554 cm21 in201699 cm39 in201786 cm34 in201890 cm35 in201975 cm30 in
- 2020s202056 cm22 in202172 cm28 in202248 cm19 in202346 cm18 in202441 cm16 in202571 cm28 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