Saas Grund, 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 53% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -14°C8°F to -11°C11°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 4.8 m189 in to 4.3 m169 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 12 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
−12 days
The trend: from 170 to 158. 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
4.7 m185 in
Now
4.3 m170 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
3.6 m140 in
Now
3.0 m116 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
12
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
177
Now
173
- Days with a base in the village−9 days
Then
168
Now
159
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-13°C8°F
Now
-12°C11°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
- 1950s1950/517.0 m274 in1951/524.5 m178 in1952/533.6 m141 in1953/543.1 m123 in1954/555.2 m205 in1955/563.6 m140 in1956/572.6 m101 in1957/585.6 m219 in1958/594.7 m183 in1959/605.1 m201 in
- 1960s1960/614.2 m165 in1961/624.8 m191 in1962/635.6 m220 in1963/644.2 m166 in1964/653.1 m123 in1965/665.2 m204 in1966/674.9 m192 in1967/684.7 m183 in1968/694.5 m177 in1969/705.9 m231 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m154 in1971/725.0 m198 in1972/733.4 m133 in1973/744.7 m185 in1974/755.7 m222 in1975/763.4 m134 in1976/776.3 m248 in1977/786.3 m248 in1978/794.7 m185 in1979/805.4 m211 in
- 1980s1980/814.4 m171 in1981/824.8 m190 in1982/835.7 m223 in1983/844.5 m179 in1984/854.0 m158 in1985/866.8 m267 in1986/874.5 m178 in1987/884.8 m190 in1988/895.0 m198 in1989/904.2 m164 in
- 1990s1990/914.4 m174 in1991/924.2 m167 in1992/933.6 m142 in1993/944.5 m177 in1994/955.8 m228 in1995/962.9 m115 in1996/974.2 m167 in1997/984.6 m181 in1998/995.2 m204 in1999/004.4 m175 in
- 2000s2000/016.3 m250 in2001/022.9 m115 in2002/034.6 m180 in2003/044.9 m192 in2004/053.0 m119 in2005/063.4 m132 in2006/073.2 m126 in2007/084.4 m174 in2008/096.2 m243 in2009/104.0 m159 in
- 2010s2010/112.9 m112 in2011/124.6 m180 in2012/134.7 m185 in2013/145.2 m206 in2014/155.1 m202 in2015/163.6 m143 in2016/173.5 m139 in2017/186.0 m235 in2018/194.6 m182 in2019/205.1 m202 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m137 in2021/223.1 m122 in2022/232.9 m114 in2023/246.5 m256 in2024/253.7 m146 in2025/263.2 m124 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