Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 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 51% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -16°C4°F to -13°C8°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 5.1 m199 in to 4.6 m182 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 14 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 178 to 173. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−10 days
The trend: from 176 to 166. 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−8%
Then
5.0 m199 in
Now
4.7 m183 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
4.0 m157 in
Now
3.3 m128 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
14
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
177
Now
173
- Days with a base in the village−5 days
Then
174
Now
168
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-15°C5°F
Now
-14°C7°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
- 1950s1950/517.3 m289 in1951/524.3 m168 in1952/533.2 m125 in1953/543.4 m132 in1954/555.1 m200 in1955/564.2 m164 in1956/573.1 m121 in1957/585.8 m227 in1958/595.4 m214 in1959/606.3 m248 in
- 1960s1960/614.6 m181 in1961/625.0 m196 in1962/636.5 m257 in1963/645.0 m198 in1964/652.6 m104 in1965/664.7 m183 in1966/674.1 m161 in1967/684.4 m173 in1968/695.6 m219 in1969/705.1 m201 in
- 1970s1970/715.1 m202 in1971/727.1 m280 in1972/733.1 m121 in1973/746.1 m241 in1974/755.7 m225 in1975/764.3 m169 in1976/777.2 m285 in1977/787.1 m280 in1978/795.1 m199 in1979/805.0 m198 in
- 1980s1980/814.2 m164 in1981/824.2 m167 in1982/836.3 m247 in1983/844.6 m179 in1984/854.4 m171 in1985/867.8 m308 in1986/874.4 m173 in1987/884.9 m193 in1988/895.5 m215 in1989/904.1 m163 in
- 1990s1990/915.0 m198 in1991/923.7 m145 in1992/933.6 m142 in1993/944.9 m192 in1994/955.6 m219 in1995/963.7 m146 in1996/974.3 m170 in1997/985.1 m202 in1998/994.7 m184 in1999/004.6 m181 in
- 2000s2000/016.2 m245 in2001/022.7 m105 in2002/034.7 m184 in2003/045.8 m230 in2004/053.5 m137 in2005/063.2 m126 in2006/073.0 m119 in2007/084.1 m162 in2008/098.2 m322 in2009/104.3 m170 in
- 2010s2010/113.9 m154 in2011/124.8 m187 in2012/135.4 m211 in2013/146.5 m257 in2014/156.1 m238 in2015/163.7 m144 in2016/174.1 m163 in2017/186.8 m267 in2018/195.0 m196 in2019/205.7 m224 in
- 2020s2020/213.4 m135 in2021/222.8 m108 in2022/232.4 m94 in2023/246.7 m262 in2024/254.5 m178 in2025/263.8 m148 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