76 winters, day by day
Εθνικό χιονοδρομικό κέντρο Βασιλίτσας, Greece. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Εθνικό χιονοδρομικό κέντρο Βασιλίτσας, Greece. 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 23% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.1°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−33%
The trend: from 2.0 m78 in to 1.3 m52 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 5 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−17 days
The trend: from 32 to 15. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 36 to 25. 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−20%
Then
1.8 m71 in
Now
1.4 m57 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
1.7 m69 in
Now
1.4 m55 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
5
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
27
Now
20
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°F
Then
-3°C26°F
Now
-2°C28°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
- 1950s1950/511.3 m53 in1951/521.6 m64 in1952/531.4 m56 in1953/543.2 m125 in1954/551.7 m66 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/571.6 m65 in1957/581.5 m58 in1958/591.2 m45 in1959/602.1 m84 in
- 1960s1960/611.0 m41 in1961/621.4 m53 in1962/632.9 m115 in1963/641.0 m39 in1964/651.5 m60 in1965/661.4 m54 in1966/671.9 m74 in1967/682.1 m83 in1968/692.0 m78 in1969/702.0 m77 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m78 in1971/722.4 m94 in1972/732.7 m104 in1973/742.1 m83 in1974/751.1 m44 in1975/761.8 m72 in1976/7753 cm21 in1977/782.1 m84 in1978/791.4 m55 in1979/802.1 m84 in
- 1980s1980/812.3 m91 in1981/822.4 m93 in1982/8394 cm37 in1983/842.4 m94 in1984/852.1 m83 in1985/861.5 m60 in1986/872.3 m90 in1987/8884 cm33 in1988/891.0 m39 in1989/9046 cm18 in
- 1990s1990/912.2 m86 in1991/921.0 m39 in1992/931.5 m60 in1993/942.4 m96 in1994/952.1 m81 in1995/962.0 m77 in1996/971.2 m48 in1997/981.4 m54 in1998/993.0 m117 in1999/001.2 m49 in
- 2000s2000/0174 cm29 in2001/021.6 m62 in2002/032.2 m87 in2003/041.5 m59 in2004/052.0 m77 in2005/062.9 m114 in2006/0759 cm23 in2007/0869 cm27 in2008/091.9 m75 in2009/102.6 m101 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m52 in2011/122.1 m83 in2012/131.8 m70 in2013/1498 cm39 in2014/151.3 m50 in2015/1640 cm16 in2016/1796 cm38 in2017/181.7 m66 in2018/192.1 m81 in2019/2084 cm33 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m51 in2021/222.0 m80 in2022/2379 cm31 in2023/2454 cm21 in2024/251.3 m50 in2025/2667 cm26 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