76 winters, day by day
Saint-Luc - Chandolin, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Saint-Luc - Chandolin, 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 72% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.4°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -10°C14°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 4.6 m183 in to 4.3 m169 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 13 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 178 to 172. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 174 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−6%
Then
4.5 m179 in
Now
4.3 m169 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
3.6 m142 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
12
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
176
Now
173
- Days with a base in the village−5 days
Then
172
Now
168
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.4°F
Then
-12°C11°F
Now
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/516.1 m238 in1951/524.9 m191 in1952/533.9 m153 in1953/543.0 m119 in1954/555.3 m208 in1955/563.5 m136 in1956/572.6 m101 in1957/585.3 m209 in1958/594.2 m163 in1959/604.5 m178 in
- 1960s1960/614.2 m167 in1961/624.7 m187 in1962/635.3 m209 in1963/643.5 m136 in1964/653.5 m137 in1965/665.7 m224 in1966/675.0 m197 in1967/684.5 m176 in1968/694.7 m185 in1969/706.0 m238 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m129 in1971/724.3 m169 in1972/733.6 m140 in1973/744.2 m167 in1974/755.3 m207 in1975/763.3 m128 in1976/775.9 m233 in1977/786.1 m241 in1978/794.5 m177 in1979/805.8 m228 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m185 in1981/825.4 m213 in1982/835.6 m221 in1983/844.5 m179 in1984/853.8 m149 in1985/865.9 m233 in1986/874.7 m186 in1987/885.1 m201 in1988/894.5 m178 in1989/904.1 m160 in
- 1990s1990/914.0 m157 in1991/924.4 m172 in1992/934.0 m158 in1993/944.6 m182 in1994/956.3 m249 in1995/962.8 m112 in1996/974.4 m172 in1997/984.0 m158 in1998/995.6 m219 in1999/004.6 m181 in
- 2000s2000/015.5 m216 in2001/023.3 m129 in2002/034.3 m170 in2003/044.6 m181 in2004/053.3 m130 in2005/063.5 m138 in2006/073.3 m131 in2007/084.5 m177 in2008/095.7 m222 in2009/103.6 m141 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m103 in2011/124.9 m191 in2012/134.7 m185 in2013/144.8 m188 in2014/154.9 m194 in2015/164.1 m159 in2016/173.3 m131 in2017/185.8 m227 in2018/194.9 m193 in2019/205.0 m198 in
- 2020s2020/213.6 m142 in2021/223.5 m137 in2022/233.2 m127 in2023/246.2 m245 in2024/253.9 m152 in2025/263.1 m122 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