76 winters, day by day
Poiana Brașov, Romania. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Poiana Brașov, Romania. 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 38% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -6°C22°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 1.4 m55 in to 1.2 m47 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−32 days
The trend: from 54 to 22. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−25 days
The trend: from 39 to 14. 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−7%
Then
1.3 m52 in
Now
1.2 m49 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
1.1 m41 in
Now
94.9 cm37 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−19 days
Then
45
Now
27
- Days with a base in the village−14 days
Then
33
Now
19
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.1°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-4°C25°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
- 1950s1950/511.1 m42 in1951/521.2 m48 in1952/531.5 m58 in1953/541.1 m44 in1954/552.2 m87 in1955/561.5 m60 in1956/5789 cm35 in1957/581.5 m57 in1958/5960 cm24 in1959/6096 cm38 in
- 1960s1960/6178 cm31 in1961/621.7 m68 in1962/631.5 m60 in1963/641.0 m40 in1964/651.3 m50 in1965/661.9 m76 in1966/671.6 m61 in1967/681.2 m48 in1968/691.9 m73 in1969/702.1 m83 in
- 1970s1970/711.1 m44 in1971/7297 cm38 in1972/731.5 m57 in1973/7497 cm38 in1974/751.3 m49 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/771.2 m48 in1977/781.1 m42 in1978/791.6 m61 in1979/801.4 m54 in
- 1980s1980/811.9 m75 in1981/821.6 m63 in1982/8369 cm27 in1983/842.2 m85 in1984/851.3 m51 in1985/861.2 m48 in1986/871.3 m53 in1987/882.2 m88 in1988/8980 cm31 in1989/9079 cm31 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m51 in1991/921.1 m43 in1992/931.1 m44 in1993/941.0 m39 in1994/951.1 m45 in1995/962.1 m81 in1996/971.7 m65 in1997/981.5 m58 in1998/991.3 m53 in1999/001.4 m55 in
- 2000s2000/0183 cm33 in2001/021.0 m41 in2002/031.3 m52 in2003/041.5 m59 in2004/051.7 m67 in2005/061.5 m59 in2006/0794 cm37 in2007/081.4 m54 in2008/091.4 m55 in2009/101.4 m56 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m43 in2011/121.3 m50 in2012/131.3 m51 in2013/1497 cm38 in2014/151.5 m58 in2015/161.1 m41 in2016/171.1 m44 in2017/181.4 m56 in2018/191.3 m52 in2019/2069 cm27 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m61 in2021/2288 cm35 in2022/231.0 m41 in2023/2491 cm36 in2024/251.1 m45 in2025/261.1 m42 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