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 42% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -14°C7°F to -12°C10°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−2%
The trend: from 5.1 m200 in to 5.0 m196 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 15 to 16. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 171 to 167. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−5 days
The trend: from 170 to 165. 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−4%
Then
5.1 m200 in
Now
4.9 m192 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
2.6 m100 in
Now
2.2 m85 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
15
Now
15
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
171
Now
169
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
170
Now
166
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-14°C8°F
Now
-12°C10°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
- 1950s1950/516.0 m238 in1951/524.7 m185 in1952/534.1 m162 in1953/543.3 m128 in1954/556.4 m253 in1955/563.9 m152 in1956/573.2 m127 in1957/585.4 m212 in1958/594.7 m185 in1959/605.3 m208 in
- 1960s1960/614.6 m180 in1961/626.0 m238 in1962/635.9 m231 in1963/643.2 m128 in1964/653.6 m142 in1965/667.6 m299 in1966/675.4 m211 in1967/684.3 m171 in1968/695.3 m209 in1969/707.6 m300 in
- 1970s1970/714.1 m161 in1971/724.5 m179 in1972/734.1 m160 in1973/744.7 m183 in1974/755.1 m202 in1975/763.3 m129 in1976/776.6 m259 in1977/787.2 m284 in1978/795.7 m222 in1979/806.9 m272 in
- 1980s1980/815.4 m214 in1981/826.1 m240 in1982/836.4 m252 in1983/845.6 m219 in1984/854.1 m162 in1985/866.1 m242 in1986/875.1 m199 in1987/886.2 m243 in1988/894.3 m168 in1989/905.2 m204 in
- 1990s1990/914.1 m160 in1991/924.0 m156 in1992/934.4 m175 in1993/945.7 m222 in1994/957.3 m289 in1995/963.6 m143 in1996/975.3 m207 in1997/984.5 m177 in1998/995.6 m220 in1999/005.1 m200 in
- 2000s2000/016.0 m238 in2001/023.6 m143 in2002/034.2 m166 in2003/044.9 m192 in2004/053.6 m143 in2005/064.3 m171 in2006/074.0 m157 in2007/085.1 m200 in2008/095.1 m201 in2009/104.6 m180 in
- 2010s2010/113.2 m126 in2011/125.5 m216 in2012/135.7 m224 in2013/144.7 m184 in2014/154.5 m176 in2015/165.0 m196 in2016/174.2 m164 in2017/187.4 m292 in2018/195.0 m198 in2019/206.5 m256 in
- 2020s2020/214.3 m167 in2021/224.2 m166 in2022/234.5 m178 in2023/246.7 m264 in2024/254.9 m194 in2025/264.1 m161 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





