SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

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

Painting of Nassfeld
Average winter
2.4 m95 in
Snowiest winter
6.2 m244 in
Leanest winter
90 cm35 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 88% of 736 resorts

+3.0°C+5.3°F

The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−31%

The trend: from 2.9 m113 in to 2.0 m78 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−4 days

The trend: from 9 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.

05101520

Days with a base at the summit

−57 days

The trend: from 141 to 84. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−12 days

The trend: from 43 to 31. 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−25%

Then

2.8 m110 in

Now

2.1 m82 in

Snowfall in the village−52%

Then

69.9 cm28 in

Now

33.4 cm13 in

Powder days at the summit−3 days

Then

8

Now

5

Days with a base at the summit−40 days

Then

132

Now

92

Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.1°F

Then

-7°C19°F

Now

-6°C22°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
47 cm19 in
Snowiest winter
6.2 m244 in
Leanest winter
90 cm35 in
Deepest snow on the ground
258 cm102 in
Coldest night at the summit
-37°C-35°F
Strongest gust at the summit
113 km/h70 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