76 winters, day by day
Queyras - Haut-Guil (Abriès), France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Queyras - Haut-Guil (Abriès), France. 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 75% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.6°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−16%
The trend: from 3.2 m127 in to 2.7 m107 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 8 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 165 to 151. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 56 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−15%
Then
3.3 m129 in
Now
2.8 m110 in
- Snowfall in the village−26%
Then
1.9 m73 in
Now
1.4 m54 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
9
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
165
Now
157
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s1950/513.5 m137 in1951/521.8 m69 in1952/531.8 m70 in1953/542.5 m97 in1954/553.4 m134 in1955/563.2 m127 in1956/572.2 m87 in1957/583.2 m126 in1958/593.6 m142 in1959/605.1 m200 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m103 in1961/623.8 m151 in1962/634.2 m165 in1963/642.8 m109 in1964/651.8 m69 in1965/663.0 m119 in1966/672.0 m80 in1967/682.5 m100 in1968/693.9 m154 in1969/702.8 m110 in
- 1970s1970/714.0 m157 in1971/725.2 m205 in1972/732.6 m104 in1973/744.5 m178 in1974/753.2 m124 in1975/763.4 m133 in1976/774.3 m168 in1977/784.9 m191 in1978/793.4 m133 in1979/803.3 m128 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m86 in1981/823.0 m120 in1982/833.8 m151 in1983/842.7 m105 in1984/852.9 m113 in1985/864.2 m164 in1986/872.4 m94 in1987/882.6 m101 in1988/892.1 m82 in1989/902.0 m79 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m115 in1991/921.9 m74 in1992/932.6 m102 in1993/943.0 m119 in1994/952.0 m80 in1995/963.6 m140 in1996/973.1 m124 in1997/982.9 m113 in1998/992.1 m81 in1999/002.4 m94 in
- 2000s2000/013.5 m139 in2001/022.2 m87 in2002/032.9 m112 in2003/043.7 m144 in2004/051.7 m67 in2005/062.1 m82 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/082.5 m97 in2008/094.7 m183 in2009/103.6 m140 in
- 2010s2010/113.0 m117 in2011/122.3 m89 in2012/133.5 m138 in2013/143.5 m139 in2014/153.2 m125 in2015/162.2 m87 in2016/172.6 m101 in2017/185.0 m195 in2018/191.9 m74 in2019/203.0 m120 in
- 2020s2020/212.3 m89 in2021/221.5 m60 in2022/231.8 m72 in2023/243.8 m150 in2024/252.6 m104 in2025/262.9 m112 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