Orava Snow, Slovakia. 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 88% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.3°F
The trend: from -3°C26°F to 0°C31°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 2.1 m82 in to 1.7 m69 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−58 days
The trend: from 111 to 53. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 55 to 45. 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−10%
Then
2.0 m79 in
Now
1.8 m71 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
1.6 m63 in
Now
1.4 m54 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−36 days
Then
100
Now
65
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.1°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-1°C31°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
- 1950s1950/511.7 m67 in1951/523.0 m119 in1952/532.0 m80 in1953/541.2 m47 in1954/552.4 m95 in1955/562.3 m92 in1956/571.5 m59 in1957/582.3 m92 in1958/591.2 m45 in1959/601.7 m68 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m50 in1961/622.8 m111 in1962/631.8 m70 in1963/641.5 m58 in1964/652.0 m79 in1965/661.7 m69 in1966/673.2 m127 in1967/682.4 m95 in1968/691.2 m48 in1969/702.1 m82 in
- 1970s1970/711.8 m72 in1971/721.3 m52 in1972/732.3 m89 in1973/741.8 m71 in1974/752.3 m91 in1975/763.0 m117 in1976/772.4 m94 in1977/781.9 m76 in1978/791.7 m69 in1979/801.9 m76 in
- 1980s1980/811.8 m72 in1981/822.7 m106 in1982/832.6 m101 in1983/841.5 m60 in1984/851.9 m73 in1985/861.9 m74 in1986/872.3 m89 in1987/881.9 m76 in1988/892.0 m77 in1989/901.4 m57 in
- 1990s1990/911.2 m47 in1991/922.3 m92 in1992/931.9 m76 in1993/941.8 m72 in1994/952.0 m79 in1995/962.0 m80 in1996/971.5 m59 in1997/981.5 m59 in1998/992.0 m78 in1999/002.9 m113 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m59 in2001/022.0 m80 in2002/031.5 m58 in2003/042.2 m86 in2004/052.5 m100 in2005/062.6 m101 in2006/072.1 m83 in2007/081.9 m75 in2008/092.5 m98 in2009/101.2 m46 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m50 in2011/122.2 m87 in2012/131.9 m75 in2013/1484 cm33 in2014/151.7 m69 in2015/161.3 m50 in2016/171.9 m73 in2017/181.4 m56 in2018/192.1 m84 in2019/201.5 m60 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m72 in2021/222.2 m85 in2022/231.9 m73 in2023/241.8 m72 in2024/251.1 m41 in2025/261.3 m50 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