Obersaxen, Switzerland. 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 47% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -8°C17°F to -6°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 4.4 m172 in to 3.9 m154 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 11 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 172 to 162. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 81 to 70. 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−6%
Then
4.3 m168 in
Now
4.0 m158 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.3 m89 in
Now
1.8 m71 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
10
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
170
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-8°C18°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/516.5 m255 in1951/524.3 m169 in1952/533.8 m150 in1953/543.1 m122 in1954/554.8 m191 in1955/563.1 m120 in1956/572.5 m98 in1957/584.3 m170 in1958/593.4 m132 in1959/604.4 m171 in
- 1960s1960/614.0 m156 in1961/624.3 m170 in1962/634.3 m170 in1963/643.0 m118 in1964/653.9 m153 in1965/665.0 m198 in1966/675.7 m224 in1967/684.8 m189 in1968/693.4 m132 in1969/706.3 m247 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m130 in1971/723.8 m151 in1972/733.7 m147 in1973/744.2 m163 in1974/755.9 m232 in1975/762.7 m105 in1976/775.6 m221 in1977/785.2 m204 in1978/794.5 m176 in1979/804.7 m186 in
- 1980s1980/813.8 m148 in1981/824.6 m183 in1982/834.6 m181 in1983/844.3 m169 in1984/854.0 m156 in1985/865.1 m201 in1986/874.0 m158 in1987/884.6 m180 in1988/894.1 m162 in1989/903.7 m144 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m140 in1991/925.0 m198 in1992/933.3 m130 in1993/943.9 m153 in1994/954.8 m189 in1995/962.5 m97 in1996/974.2 m163 in1997/984.7 m183 in1998/995.5 m215 in1999/004.9 m191 in
- 2000s2000/016.7 m263 in2001/023.1 m122 in2002/034.2 m166 in2003/044.2 m165 in2004/052.8 m110 in2005/063.4 m132 in2006/073.0 m119 in2007/084.7 m185 in2008/094.8 m188 in2009/103.6 m143 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m103 in2011/124.8 m188 in2012/134.2 m166 in2013/144.6 m180 in2014/154.3 m167 in2015/163.4 m135 in2016/173.1 m123 in2017/184.7 m185 in2018/194.3 m169 in2019/204.1 m160 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m150 in2021/223.1 m123 in2022/233.1 m124 in2023/245.7 m223 in2024/252.9 m113 in2025/262.5 m98 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