76 winters, day by day
Queyras - Molines/Saint-Véran, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Queyras - Molines/Saint-Véran, 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 72% of 736 resorts
+2.5°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
−5%
The trend: from 3.6 m142 in to 3.4 m134 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 10 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 166 to 152. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 60 to 55. 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
3.6 m144 in
Now
3.4 m135 in
- Snowfall in the village−25%
Then
2.2 m85 in
Now
1.6 m64 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
10
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
166
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°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
- 1950s1950/514.4 m174 in1951/523.0 m119 in1952/532.2 m86 in1953/542.4 m94 in1954/554.1 m159 in1955/563.3 m128 in1956/572.8 m108 in1957/583.4 m134 in1958/594.4 m172 in1959/604.9 m192 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m126 in1961/624.6 m181 in1962/634.8 m190 in1963/643.3 m130 in1964/651.9 m73 in1965/664.3 m169 in1966/672.6 m104 in1967/682.9 m114 in1968/694.1 m163 in1969/703.6 m143 in
- 1970s1970/714.3 m169 in1971/724.6 m180 in1972/732.5 m100 in1973/744.4 m174 in1974/753.1 m120 in1975/763.0 m117 in1976/775.1 m200 in1977/785.2 m205 in1978/794.0 m156 in1979/803.3 m131 in
- 1980s1980/813.2 m126 in1981/823.4 m135 in1982/834.5 m178 in1983/843.1 m123 in1984/853.2 m126 in1985/864.7 m184 in1986/872.6 m103 in1987/883.3 m128 in1988/892.8 m108 in1989/903.2 m124 in
- 1990s1990/913.3 m129 in1991/922.3 m89 in1992/933.1 m122 in1993/943.5 m137 in1994/953.8 m150 in1995/963.7 m144 in1996/974.1 m161 in1997/983.6 m141 in1998/992.6 m103 in1999/003.2 m124 in
- 2000s2000/014.9 m192 in2001/022.2 m85 in2002/033.6 m140 in2003/043.7 m147 in2004/052.1 m83 in2005/062.6 m103 in2006/072.0 m79 in2007/083.0 m120 in2008/095.3 m209 in2009/104.0 m157 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m122 in2011/123.5 m139 in2012/134.2 m165 in2013/143.9 m154 in2014/154.0 m157 in2015/163.0 m118 in2016/173.9 m155 in2017/185.4 m211 in2018/192.7 m108 in2019/204.0 m159 in
- 2020s2020/212.5 m97 in2021/222.2 m86 in2022/232.5 m99 in2023/244.9 m193 in2024/253.5 m138 in2025/262.9 m115 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