Sälen, Sweden. 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 92% of 736 resorts
+3.1°C+5.5°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
±0%
The trend: from 1.7 m66 in to 1.7 m66 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−25 days
The trend: from 142 to 117. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 47 to 46. 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−1%
Then
1.7 m65 in
Now
1.6 m64 in
- Snowfall in the village−1%
Then
1.7 m65 in
Now
1.6 m65 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−17 days
Then
139
Now
122
- Average temperature at the summit+2.0°C+3.6°F
Then
-8°C17°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m92 in1951/521.2 m48 in1952/531.3 m51 in1953/541.3 m53 in1954/551.6 m64 in1955/561.3 m50 in1956/571.3 m49 in1957/5884 cm33 in1958/591.7 m69 in1959/602.3 m90 in
- 1960s1960/611.8 m69 in1961/622.0 m77 in1962/631.2 m45 in1963/6480 cm31 in1964/652.0 m78 in1965/662.4 m93 in1966/672.4 m93 in1967/681.8 m70 in1968/691.8 m70 in1969/701.8 m70 in
- 1970s1970/711.9 m75 in1971/721.8 m70 in1972/731.5 m61 in1973/741.7 m66 in1974/751.9 m75 in1975/761.2 m46 in1976/772.3 m89 in1977/781.7 m68 in1978/791.4 m56 in1979/801.4 m55 in
- 1980s1980/811.4 m54 in1981/822.0 m78 in1982/831.5 m59 in1983/841.3 m52 in1984/852.2 m86 in1985/862.1 m81 in1986/871.8 m70 in1987/882.6 m101 in1988/891.8 m72 in1989/901.9 m76 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m62 in1991/921.8 m69 in1992/931.7 m67 in1993/941.9 m76 in1994/952.3 m90 in1995/9657 cm22 in1996/971.5 m57 in1997/981.7 m68 in1998/991.9 m74 in1999/001.9 m73 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m78 in2001/021.5 m61 in2002/031.3 m53 in2003/041.4 m54 in2004/051.3 m50 in2005/061.7 m65 in2006/071.5 m57 in2007/082.5 m97 in2008/091.7 m67 in2009/101.4 m54 in
- 2010s2010/111.2 m48 in2011/121.3 m53 in2012/131.1 m44 in2013/142.5 m97 in2014/151.9 m74 in2015/161.6 m62 in2016/171.6 m61 in2017/182.0 m77 in2018/191.5 m59 in2019/201.9 m75 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m65 in2021/221.2 m48 in2022/232.0 m79 in2023/242.0 m77 in2024/251.1 m43 in2025/261.5 m60 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