Saalbach, 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 72% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 3.9 m155 in to 3.6 m143 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−20 days
The trend: from 156 to 135. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 80 to 70. 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−6%
Then
3.9 m153 in
Now
3.7 m144 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
2.6 m104 in
Now
2.2 m88 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−14 days
Then
153
Now
140
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/515.2 m203 in1951/523.9 m152 in1952/533.2 m125 in1953/542.9 m114 in1954/553.6 m141 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/573.1 m120 in1957/583.7 m145 in1958/592.9 m114 in1959/604.1 m160 in
- 1960s1960/612.8 m111 in1961/624.5 m177 in1962/633.2 m125 in1963/642.6 m103 in1964/655.1 m199 in1965/664.4 m171 in1966/676.0 m235 in1967/683.9 m155 in1968/692.9 m116 in1969/705.0 m198 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m123 in1971/723.4 m134 in1972/733.9 m152 in1973/744.1 m161 in1974/755.1 m201 in1975/763.1 m122 in1976/775.0 m198 in1977/784.3 m170 in1978/793.8 m149 in1979/804.9 m191 in
- 1980s1980/813.9 m153 in1981/824.4 m173 in1982/834.1 m159 in1983/843.6 m143 in1984/853.5 m136 in1985/864.3 m169 in1986/874.1 m162 in1987/884.2 m167 in1988/894.0 m156 in1989/903.0 m118 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m112 in1991/925.0 m195 in1992/933.5 m139 in1993/943.4 m132 in1994/954.5 m175 in1995/962.8 m108 in1996/973.8 m148 in1997/983.8 m151 in1998/994.2 m167 in1999/005.0 m198 in
- 2000s2000/014.8 m190 in2001/023.7 m144 in2002/033.0 m117 in2003/043.8 m151 in2004/053.3 m130 in2005/063.6 m143 in2006/072.9 m113 in2007/084.2 m163 in2008/094.5 m179 in2009/102.9 m114 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m93 in2011/124.0 m158 in2012/133.9 m155 in2013/143.9 m153 in2014/153.5 m138 in2015/163.3 m128 in2016/173.1 m122 in2017/183.9 m153 in2018/194.7 m186 in2019/203.8 m151 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m138 in2021/223.5 m138 in2022/233.5 m136 in2023/244.7 m183 in2024/252.3 m90 in2025/262.3 m90 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