Rukatunturi, Finland. 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 83% of 736 resorts
+2.8°C+5.0°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+9%
The trend: from 1.3 m53 in to 1.5 m57 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 148 to 139. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 46 to 50. 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+5%
Then
1.4 m54 in
Now
1.4 m57 in
- Snowfall in the village+4%
Then
1.4 m55 in
Now
1.4 m57 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
148
Now
139
- Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/511.4 m54 in1951/521.6 m62 in1952/531.6 m62 in1953/541.1 m43 in1954/551.7 m67 in1955/561.1 m44 in1956/5788 cm35 in1957/581.3 m50 in1958/591.5 m57 in1959/6096 cm38 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m62 in1961/621.5 m60 in1962/6397 cm38 in1963/641.6 m63 in1964/651.6 m64 in1965/661.1 m44 in1966/671.5 m58 in1967/681.3 m49 in1968/691.3 m49 in1969/701.5 m60 in
- 1970s1970/711.6 m63 in1971/721.3 m51 in1972/731.9 m76 in1973/741.4 m57 in1974/751.7 m67 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/771.7 m65 in1977/781.1 m44 in1978/791.1 m45 in1979/801.1 m44 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m57 in1981/821.5 m60 in1982/831.8 m69 in1983/841.4 m53 in1984/851.1 m43 in1985/861.0 m41 in1986/871.2 m46 in1987/8889 cm35 in1988/891.7 m68 in1989/901.3 m52 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m50 in1991/921.7 m67 in1992/931.8 m72 in1993/941.0 m41 in1994/951.5 m60 in1995/961.0 m41 in1996/971.9 m76 in1997/981.5 m58 in1998/991.2 m46 in1999/001.8 m69 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m53 in2001/021.1 m42 in2002/031.1 m43 in2003/041.2 m48 in2004/051.2 m49 in2005/061.3 m52 in2006/071.5 m61 in2007/081.5 m59 in2008/091.3 m50 in2009/101.4 m56 in
- 2010s2010/1184 cm33 in2011/121.5 m60 in2012/131.2 m46 in2013/141.7 m67 in2014/151.8 m69 in2015/161.8 m69 in2016/171.5 m58 in2017/181.3 m52 in2018/191.4 m56 in2019/202.2 m87 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m69 in2021/221.5 m59 in2022/231.4 m54 in2023/241.6 m63 in2024/251.3 m49 in2025/261.2 m47 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