Pamporovo, Bulgaria. 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 20% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.9°F
The trend: from -3°C26°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 1.9 m73 in to 1.7 m67 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 4 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 31 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 38 to 30. 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−1%
Then
1.8 m70 in
Now
1.8 m69 in
- Snowfall in the village−5%
Then
1.4 m56 in
Now
1.4 m53 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
4
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
24
Now
18
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.7°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-2°C29°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
- 1950s1950/511.5 m61 in1951/521.5 m61 in1952/532.2 m85 in1953/542.7 m107 in1954/552.4 m94 in1955/562.8 m111 in1956/571.5 m59 in1957/581.8 m70 in1958/591.1 m44 in1959/6095 cm37 in
- 1960s1960/611.4 m56 in1961/621.6 m63 in1962/632.3 m89 in1963/641.3 m52 in1964/651.6 m61 in1965/661.2 m46 in1966/672.0 m78 in1967/681.5 m61 in1968/692.6 m103 in1969/702.0 m77 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m80 in1971/721.3 m49 in1972/732.1 m81 in1973/742.0 m80 in1974/752.2 m86 in1975/761.6 m65 in1976/771.1 m44 in1977/781.5 m61 in1978/791.3 m50 in1979/801.9 m75 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m88 in1981/822.5 m98 in1982/8392 cm36 in1983/843.1 m123 in1984/851.6 m62 in1985/861.6 m65 in1986/872.5 m97 in1987/881.8 m72 in1988/892.0 m78 in1989/901.1 m44 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m65 in1991/921.2 m46 in1992/931.4 m55 in1993/941.4 m56 in1994/952.5 m98 in1995/962.4 m95 in1996/972.1 m82 in1997/982.7 m106 in1998/992.5 m100 in1999/001.4 m54 in
- 2000s2000/011.2 m48 in2001/022.2 m87 in2002/032.3 m89 in2003/041.5 m58 in2004/051.6 m61 in2005/062.5 m98 in2006/071.1 m44 in2007/081.4 m54 in2008/091.6 m63 in2009/102.1 m81 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m51 in2011/122.0 m80 in2012/132.0 m78 in2013/141.3 m51 in2014/152.2 m88 in2015/161.2 m46 in2016/171.5 m61 in2017/181.8 m72 in2018/191.4 m55 in2019/202.0 m79 in
- 2020s2020/211.7 m67 in2021/222.3 m89 in2022/231.0 m40 in2023/241.2 m49 in2024/251.9 m74 in2025/261.6 m63 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