76 winters, day by day
Pyhä Ski Resort, Finland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pyhä Ski Resort, Finland. 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 76% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.6°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+10%
The trend: from 1.3 m52 in to 1.4 m57 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 148 to 138. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 45 to 47. 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+6%
Then
1.3 m53 in
Now
1.4 m56 in
- Snowfall in the village+6%
Then
1.4 m54 in
Now
1.4 m57 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
147
Now
138
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/511.2 m49 in1951/521.6 m63 in1952/531.6 m61 in1953/541.0 m40 in1954/551.7 m65 in1955/561.2 m46 in1956/5785 cm33 in1957/581.2 m48 in1958/591.5 m58 in1959/601.1 m42 in
- 1960s1960/611.5 m61 in1961/621.5 m59 in1962/6381 cm32 in1963/641.4 m54 in1964/651.7 m66 in1965/661.1 m45 in1966/671.6 m62 in1967/681.2 m48 in1968/691.4 m55 in1969/701.4 m56 in
- 1970s1970/711.3 m50 in1971/721.2 m48 in1972/732.0 m79 in1973/741.5 m57 in1974/751.5 m59 in1975/761.2 m48 in1976/771.7 m65 in1977/781.2 m49 in1978/791.0 m41 in1979/801.2 m48 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m60 in1981/821.3 m52 in1982/831.4 m54 in1983/841.4 m54 in1984/851.1 m43 in1985/861.2 m45 in1986/871.3 m51 in1987/881.0 m40 in1988/891.7 m67 in1989/901.1 m44 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m53 in1991/921.5 m60 in1992/931.9 m76 in1993/941.2 m47 in1994/951.6 m63 in1995/961.1 m43 in1996/971.9 m73 in1997/981.7 m65 in1998/991.2 m46 in1999/002.0 m78 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m53 in2001/021.1 m42 in2002/031.0 m41 in2003/041.1 m44 in2004/051.3 m50 in2005/061.3 m52 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/081.6 m65 in2008/091.0 m41 in2009/101.5 m57 in
- 2010s2010/1177 cm30 in2011/121.7 m66 in2012/131.2 m47 in2013/141.6 m61 in2014/151.7 m65 in2015/161.8 m70 in2016/171.5 m57 in2017/181.4 m56 in2018/191.5 m57 in2019/202.2 m85 in
- 2020s2020/211.4 m56 in2021/221.4 m54 in2022/231.4 m55 in2023/241.5 m59 in2024/251.2 m48 in2025/261.3 m49 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