76 winters, day by day
Ratschings-Jaufen, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Ratschings-Jaufen, Italy. 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 48% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−15%
The trend: from 2.9 m115 in to 2.5 m98 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 5 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 168 to 157. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 64 to 54. 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−12%
Then
2.9 m114 in
Now
2.6 m101 in
- Snowfall in the village−28%
Then
1.4 m57 in
Now
1.0 m41 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
5
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
166
Now
160
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°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
- 1950s1950/515.4 m212 in1951/522.3 m91 in1952/532.0 m79 in1953/542.0 m78 in1954/552.7 m105 in1955/562.1 m81 in1956/571.6 m64 in1957/582.7 m105 in1958/592.3 m89 in1959/603.5 m137 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m106 in1961/623.3 m131 in1962/632.8 m111 in1963/642.4 m95 in1964/652.7 m104 in1965/662.7 m106 in1966/673.8 m149 in1967/683.2 m125 in1968/692.4 m96 in1969/703.3 m131 in
- 1970s1970/712.5 m98 in1971/723.2 m126 in1972/732.4 m94 in1973/743.2 m125 in1974/754.0 m156 in1975/762.0 m78 in1976/774.1 m161 in1977/783.5 m139 in1978/793.4 m135 in1979/803.1 m120 in
- 1980s1980/812.0 m80 in1981/822.2 m87 in1982/832.8 m109 in1983/842.7 m108 in1984/852.8 m109 in1985/863.9 m153 in1986/872.6 m104 in1987/882.6 m101 in1988/892.8 m108 in1989/902.6 m101 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m102 in1991/923.0 m119 in1992/932.1 m81 in1993/942.3 m90 in1994/952.5 m98 in1995/961.6 m63 in1996/972.3 m90 in1997/982.6 m103 in1998/992.6 m102 in1999/002.5 m100 in
- 2000s2000/014.5 m177 in2001/021.9 m73 in2002/032.0 m80 in2003/042.8 m109 in2004/051.5 m58 in2005/062.3 m90 in2006/072.0 m79 in2007/082.9 m113 in2008/093.4 m133 in2009/102.9 m113 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m88 in2011/122.3 m89 in2012/133.1 m121 in2013/143.7 m144 in2014/152.2 m88 in2015/162.3 m92 in2016/172.0 m80 in2017/183.4 m132 in2018/192.7 m106 in2019/203.3 m131 in
- 2020s2020/213.0 m116 in2021/221.9 m76 in2022/231.9 m76 in2023/243.7 m144 in2024/251.6 m64 in2025/261.5 m57 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