SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Puy-Saint-Vincent, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Puy-Saint-Vincent
Painting of Puy-Saint-Vincent
Average winter
4.1 m160 in
Snowiest winter
6.0 m237 in
1976/77
Leanest winter
2.3 m90 in
2001/02
Powder days a winter
12

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 21% of 736 resorts

+1.6°C+2.9°F

The trend: from -10°C15°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°

Snowfall at the summit

−6%

The trend: from 4.2 m165 in to 3.9 m155 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 13 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.

510152025

Days with a base at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 167 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.

100120140160180

Days with a base in the village

−5 days

The trend: from 165 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.

100120140160180

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−6%

Then

4.2 m166 in

Now

4.0 m156 in

Snowfall in the village−20%

Then

2.3 m92 in

Now

1.9 m73 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

13

Now

12

Days with a base at the summit−3 days

Then

167

Now

164

Days with a base in the village−4 days

Then

166

Now

162

Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F

Then

-9°C16°F

Now

-8°C17°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
54 cm21 in
21 March 1971
Snowiest winter
6.0 m237 in
1976/77
Leanest winter
2.3 m90 in
2001/02
Deepest snow on the ground
326 cm128 in
22 February 1955
Coldest night at the summit
-36°C-33°F
29 January 2005
Strongest gust at the summit
147 km/h92 mph
27 February 1990

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