Pizol, Switzerland. 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 70% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.4°F
The trend: from -10°C15°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 4.5 m178 in to 3.8 m149 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 13 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 167 to 154. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−18 days
The trend: from 158 to 140. 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−10%
Then
4.4 m172 in
Now
3.9 m154 in
- Snowfall in the village−27%
Then
1.1 m44 in
Now
81.3 cm32 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
12
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
165
Now
158
- Days with a base in the village−11 days
Then
155
Now
144
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.4°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/515.4 m213 in1951/524.2 m164 in1952/534.5 m177 in1953/543.3 m131 in1954/554.7 m186 in1955/563.3 m130 in1956/572.6 m102 in1957/584.5 m175 in1958/593.1 m121 in1959/604.1 m159 in
- 1960s1960/613.5 m136 in1961/624.8 m187 in1962/634.6 m179 in1963/642.4 m95 in1964/654.4 m172 in1965/665.2 m206 in1966/676.4 m251 in1967/685.1 m200 in1968/693.7 m144 in1969/706.7 m265 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m127 in1971/723.3 m130 in1972/734.6 m182 in1973/744.7 m183 in1974/756.1 m239 in1975/763.1 m122 in1976/775.1 m202 in1977/785.2 m204 in1978/793.7 m146 in1979/805.5 m216 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m184 in1981/825.7 m224 in1982/834.5 m178 in1983/844.6 m180 in1984/853.8 m150 in1985/864.6 m182 in1986/874.5 m179 in1987/885.1 m200 in1988/893.9 m152 in1989/903.2 m126 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m119 in1991/925.0 m196 in1992/933.3 m130 in1993/944.0 m158 in1994/955.0 m198 in1995/962.9 m115 in1996/974.0 m157 in1997/983.9 m153 in1998/996.1 m241 in1999/005.7 m223 in
- 2000s2000/015.3 m209 in2001/023.2 m127 in2002/033.5 m136 in2003/044.3 m170 in2004/053.6 m143 in2005/063.9 m152 in2006/072.9 m115 in2007/084.9 m193 in2008/094.8 m190 in2009/103.1 m121 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m98 in2011/125.2 m206 in2012/133.9 m154 in2013/143.5 m137 in2014/153.8 m151 in2015/163.5 m136 in2016/173.1 m120 in2017/184.5 m176 in2018/194.5 m175 in2019/203.4 m135 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m150 in2021/223.4 m133 in2022/232.8 m111 in2023/244.9 m192 in2024/252.6 m102 in2025/262.8 m109 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