SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Peyragudes, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Peyragudes
Average winter
2.7 m108 in
Snowiest winter
4.4 m173 in
Leanest winter
1.6 m64 in
Powder days a winter
5

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 60% of 736 resorts

+2.3°C+4.1°F

The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-4°25°-2°28°0°32°

Snowfall at the summit

−10%

The trend: from 2.9 m113 in to 2.6 m102 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 5 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.

0510

Days with a base at the summit

−65 days

The trend: from 130 to 65. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with a base in the village

−56 days

The trend: from 110 to 54. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

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−8%

Then

2.9 m113 in

Now

2.7 m104 in

Snowfall in the village−18%

Then

1.1 m45 in

Now

93.533 cm37 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

5

Now

5

Days with a base at the summit−39 days

Then

122

Now

83

Days with a base in the village−35 days

Then

103

Now

68

Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F

Then

-3°C26°F

Now

-2°C28°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

Most snow in a day
37 cm15 in
Snowiest winter
4.4 m173 in
Leanest winter
1.6 m64 in
Deepest snow on the ground
158 cm62 in
Coldest night at the summit
-29°C-21°F
Strongest gust at the summit
146 km/h91 mph

All winters

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