SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Rinerhorn, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Rinerhorn
Painting of Rinerhorn
Average winter
3.7 m146 in
Snowiest winter
6.0 m235 in
2000/01
Leanest winter
2.3 m90 in
2025/26
Powder days a winter
8

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 51% of 736 resorts

+2.1°C+3.8°F

The trend: from -10°C15°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°

Snowfall at the summit

−8%

The trend: from 3.9 m152 in to 3.5 m139 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.

05101520

Days with a base at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 174 to 165. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with a base in the village

−11 days

The trend: from 169 to 158. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

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−5%

Then

3.8 m150 in

Now

3.6 m143 in

Snowfall in the village−13%

Then

2.6 m103 in

Now

2.3 m90 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

8

Now

8

Days with a base at the summit−6 days

Then

173

Now

167

Days with a base in the village−6 days

Then

167

Now

161

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°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

Most snow in a day
49 cm19 in
5 November 2014
Snowiest winter
6.0 m235 in
2000/01
Leanest winter
2.3 m90 in
2025/26
Deepest snow on the ground
301 cm119 in
11 April 1975
Coldest night at the summit
-38°C-37°F
7 January 1985
Strongest gust at the summit
119 km/h74 mph
27 February 1990

All winters

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