76 winters, day by day
Narvikfjellet Ski Resort, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Narvikfjellet Ski Resort, Norway. 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 90% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.4°F
The trend: from -14°C7°F to -11°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+17%
The trend: from 3.4 m133 in to 4.0 m156 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 5 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 174 to 178. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+8 days
The trend: from 76 to 83. 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+9%
Then
3.5 m137 in
Now
3.8 m150 in
- Snowfall in the village+7%
Then
2.7 m108 in
Now
2.9 m115 in
- Powder days at the summit+2 days
Then
6
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit+2 days
Then
174
Now
176
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.2°F
Then
-13°C8°F
Now
-11°C11°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
- 1950s1950/512.5 m97 in1951/523.3 m130 in1952/535.3 m210 in1953/543.4 m133 in1954/553.0 m119 in1955/562.9 m113 in1956/572.9 m114 in1957/583.2 m126 in1958/594.6 m181 in1959/602.2 m86 in
- 1960s1960/613.5 m138 in1961/623.5 m138 in1962/634.4 m175 in1963/644.7 m183 in1964/654.3 m171 in1965/661.7 m67 in1966/673.1 m122 in1967/683.8 m150 in1968/693.1 m121 in1969/702.2 m86 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m155 in1971/723.7 m147 in1972/735.6 m221 in1973/744.1 m159 in1974/754.1 m163 in1975/763.7 m145 in1976/772.9 m114 in1977/783.3 m129 in1978/793.0 m117 in1979/802.7 m105 in
- 1980s1980/814.2 m167 in1981/824.0 m157 in1982/833.3 m130 in1983/843.7 m146 in1984/852.2 m86 in1985/863.1 m120 in1986/873.0 m119 in1987/883.3 m129 in1988/894.8 m188 in1989/904.6 m183 in
- 1990s1990/914.1 m162 in1991/925.0 m197 in1992/935.8 m229 in1993/942.4 m95 in1994/953.8 m148 in1995/963.9 m154 in1996/975.4 m211 in1997/983.2 m125 in1998/992.7 m107 in1999/005.0 m197 in
- 2000s2000/012.3 m92 in2001/024.3 m169 in2002/033.8 m149 in2003/043.1 m121 in2004/053.9 m153 in2005/063.1 m123 in2006/073.9 m152 in2007/082.9 m115 in2008/093.5 m138 in2009/102.8 m112 in
- 2010s2010/114.2 m164 in2011/123.6 m143 in2012/133.5 m136 in2013/144.5 m176 in2014/154.3 m171 in2015/162.8 m111 in2016/175.0 m196 in2017/181.9 m76 in2018/194.9 m193 in2019/205.2 m206 in
- 2020s2020/214.0 m159 in2021/224.2 m166 in2022/233.7 m146 in2023/243.1 m120 in2024/256.1 m239 in2025/263.2 m124 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