76 winters, day by day
Pitztaler Gletscher, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pitztaler Gletscher, Austria. 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 45% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -15°C6°F to -13°C9°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 3.9 m152 in to 3.6 m140 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 174 to 169. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−6 days
The trend: from 172 to 166. 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−5%
Then
3.8 m150 in
Now
3.6 m142 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
2.8 m111 in
Now
2.5 m99 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
174
Now
171
- Days with a base in the village−3 days
Then
171
Now
168
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-14°C6°F
Now
-13°C8°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
- 1950s1950/515.3 m208 in1951/523.8 m148 in1952/533.4 m135 in1953/542.8 m109 in1954/553.7 m144 in1955/563.2 m124 in1956/572.6 m102 in1957/583.8 m148 in1958/593.0 m118 in1959/604.2 m165 in
- 1960s1960/613.3 m128 in1961/624.2 m167 in1962/633.5 m139 in1963/643.0 m118 in1964/654.3 m168 in1965/664.5 m175 in1966/675.3 m210 in1967/684.0 m158 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/704.9 m191 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m113 in1971/723.6 m141 in1972/733.3 m129 in1973/744.1 m162 in1974/754.6 m180 in1975/762.7 m104 in1976/774.9 m192 in1977/784.4 m172 in1978/793.9 m155 in1979/804.5 m177 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m130 in1981/823.8 m148 in1982/833.9 m152 in1983/843.7 m147 in1984/853.4 m133 in1985/864.3 m167 in1986/873.8 m150 in1987/884.0 m159 in1988/894.0 m156 in1989/903.6 m140 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m126 in1991/924.4 m175 in1992/933.5 m137 in1993/943.4 m133 in1994/954.5 m176 in1995/962.5 m97 in1996/973.5 m138 in1997/983.7 m144 in1998/994.4 m174 in1999/004.7 m185 in
- 2000s2000/015.4 m214 in2001/023.5 m137 in2002/033.5 m136 in2003/043.6 m141 in2004/052.7 m108 in2005/063.3 m131 in2006/072.9 m112 in2007/084.1 m163 in2008/094.1 m161 in2009/103.2 m128 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m101 in2011/123.7 m146 in2012/133.9 m154 in2013/143.8 m148 in2014/153.4 m135 in2015/163.3 m130 in2016/172.9 m116 in2017/184.1 m159 in2018/194.2 m165 in2019/204.0 m159 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m136 in2021/223.1 m122 in2022/233.3 m128 in2023/245.2 m204 in2024/252.3 m90 in2025/262.3 m91 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