76 winters, day by day
Pajarito Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pajarito Mountain, United States. 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 61% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−18%
The trend: from 1.3 m53 in to 1.1 m43 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 27 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 34 to 28. 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−14%
Then
1.2 m49 in
Now
1.1 m42 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
1.3 m50 in
Now
1.1 m43 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
21
Now
10
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.6°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-4°C25°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
- 1950s1950/5192 cm36 in1951/521.7 m67 in1952/531.1 m44 in1953/5480 cm31 in1954/5578 cm31 in1955/5693 cm37 in1956/571.1 m41 in1957/582.0 m77 in1958/5987 cm34 in1959/601.5 m58 in
- 1960s1960/611.5 m60 in1961/621.3 m52 in1962/631.3 m51 in1963/641.0 m39 in1964/651.7 m66 in1965/661.1 m42 in1966/6755 cm22 in1967/681.8 m69 in1968/691.3 m52 in1969/7091 cm36 in
- 1970s1970/7185 cm33 in1971/7267 cm26 in1972/731.9 m76 in1973/741.2 m48 in1974/751.7 m69 in1975/7699 cm39 in1976/771.0 m40 in1977/781.2 m48 in1978/791.7 m67 in1979/802.0 m77 in
- 1980s1980/8189 cm35 in1981/821.3 m53 in1982/832.1 m81 in1983/841.7 m67 in1984/851.7 m69 in1985/861.1 m45 in1986/872.0 m78 in1987/881.6 m65 in1988/891.0 m40 in1989/901.0 m40 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m60 in1991/921.7 m66 in1992/932.0 m80 in1993/941.1 m43 in1994/951.5 m60 in1995/9669 cm27 in1996/971.7 m66 in1997/981.4 m55 in1998/9982 cm32 in1999/0076 cm30 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m52 in2001/0252 cm20 in2002/0398 cm39 in2003/041.2 m47 in2004/051.7 m68 in2005/0652 cm20 in2006/071.2 m47 in2007/081.2 m48 in2008/091.2 m46 in2009/101.5 m58 in
- 2010s2010/1172 cm28 in2011/121.1 m42 in2012/1370 cm28 in2013/1467 cm26 in2014/151.1 m45 in2015/161.1 m44 in2016/171.5 m58 in2017/1851 cm20 in2018/191.5 m58 in2019/201.3 m50 in
- 2020s2020/2191 cm36 in2021/2295 cm37 in2022/231.3 m51 in2023/241.4 m55 in2024/2580 cm31 in2025/2644 cm17 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