76 winters, day by day
Riesneralm - Donnersbachwald, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Riesneralm - Donnersbachwald, Austria. 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 69% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−4%
The trend: from 3.8 m149 in to 3.6 m143 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 7 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−26 days
The trend: from 158 to 132. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 76 to 71. 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−3%
Then
3.7 m147 in
Now
3.6 m142 in
- Snowfall in the village−12%
Then
2.0 m79 in
Now
1.8 m69 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
7
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−17 days
Then
153
Now
136
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.4°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/513.8 m149 in1951/524.1 m161 in1952/532.9 m114 in1953/542.8 m112 in1954/554.1 m160 in1955/563.5 m137 in1956/573.6 m140 in1957/583.8 m150 in1958/592.4 m96 in1959/603.7 m145 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m99 in1961/624.5 m178 in1962/632.9 m116 in1963/642.4 m94 in1964/655.2 m204 in1965/663.9 m153 in1966/675.7 m222 in1967/683.6 m141 in1968/692.8 m108 in1969/704.5 m179 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m123 in1971/722.8 m111 in1972/733.8 m148 in1973/744.2 m165 in1974/755.1 m201 in1975/763.4 m133 in1976/774.4 m173 in1977/784.0 m156 in1978/793.3 m129 in1979/805.1 m200 in
- 1980s1980/813.7 m147 in1981/824.8 m190 in1982/834.1 m163 in1983/843.7 m147 in1984/853.1 m123 in1985/864.0 m157 in1986/874.5 m176 in1987/884.4 m174 in1988/894.2 m166 in1989/902.9 m114 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m96 in1991/925.0 m195 in1992/933.8 m148 in1993/943.8 m149 in1994/954.6 m180 in1995/963.2 m124 in1996/973.8 m151 in1997/983.8 m148 in1998/994.0 m159 in1999/005.1 m200 in
- 2000s2000/013.8 m148 in2001/023.7 m146 in2002/032.7 m105 in2003/043.9 m155 in2004/053.9 m152 in2005/063.9 m154 in2006/073.1 m120 in2007/084.2 m165 in2008/094.6 m180 in2009/102.9 m112 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m91 in2011/124.4 m173 in2012/134.0 m157 in2013/143.2 m125 in2014/153.5 m136 in2015/162.8 m111 in2016/173.4 m135 in2017/183.8 m150 in2018/195.0 m195 in2019/203.5 m139 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m122 in2021/223.7 m144 in2022/233.7 m144 in2023/244.6 m183 in2024/252.2 m86 in2025/262.1 m81 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