Obertauern, Austria. 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 50% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−6%
The trend: from 3.7 m144 in to 3.4 m135 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 6 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 163 to 147. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−21 days
The trend: from 160 to 139. 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−5%
Then
3.6 m142 in
Now
3.4 m135 in
- Snowfall in the village−5%
Then
3.6 m143 in
Now
3.4 m136 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
6
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
160
Now
149
- Days with a base in the village−14 days
Then
157
Now
142
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-8°C17°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/514.6 m179 in1951/523.8 m148 in1952/532.7 m106 in1953/542.8 m109 in1954/553.4 m135 in1955/563.1 m122 in1956/573.2 m124 in1957/583.6 m140 in1958/592.7 m107 in1959/603.8 m151 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m104 in1961/624.3 m170 in1962/632.8 m111 in1963/642.5 m100 in1964/655.1 m199 in1965/663.8 m148 in1966/675.3 m209 in1967/683.5 m137 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/704.5 m176 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m121 in1971/723.1 m123 in1972/733.5 m139 in1973/743.7 m146 in1974/754.9 m191 in1975/763.0 m119 in1976/774.5 m178 in1977/784.1 m161 in1978/793.4 m133 in1979/804.6 m181 in
- 1980s1980/813.5 m137 in1981/824.0 m157 in1982/833.9 m155 in1983/843.5 m137 in1984/853.0 m119 in1985/864.0 m159 in1986/873.9 m154 in1987/884.1 m161 in1988/893.9 m152 in1989/902.9 m113 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m104 in1991/925.0 m198 in1992/933.4 m135 in1993/943.3 m128 in1994/954.1 m160 in1995/962.7 m106 in1996/973.5 m137 in1997/983.5 m138 in1998/993.6 m142 in1999/004.4 m174 in
- 2000s2000/014.2 m166 in2001/023.4 m133 in2002/032.6 m102 in2003/043.7 m144 in2004/053.4 m132 in2005/063.4 m135 in2006/072.9 m114 in2007/083.7 m146 in2008/094.4 m174 in2009/102.9 m113 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m92 in2011/123.7 m145 in2012/133.8 m149 in2013/143.7 m147 in2014/153.1 m124 in2015/162.8 m111 in2016/173.2 m125 in2017/183.8 m149 in2018/194.5 m176 in2019/203.7 m146 in
- 2020s2020/213.4 m133 in2021/223.5 m136 in2022/233.5 m138 in2023/244.5 m176 in2024/252.1 m84 in2025/262.1 m82 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