Sansicario, Italy. 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 63% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -11°C13°F to -9°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−3%
The trend: from 3.7 m144 in to 3.6 m140 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 10 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 168 to 160. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 63 to 59. 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−5%
Then
3.7 m146 in
Now
3.5 m139 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
2.5 m100 in
Now
2.0 m80 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
10
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
168
Now
163
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-10°C13°F
Now
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/514.5 m175 in1951/523.1 m123 in1952/532.5 m98 in1953/542.5 m99 in1954/554.6 m182 in1955/563.0 m118 in1956/572.8 m109 in1957/583.5 m136 in1958/594.3 m167 in1959/604.6 m180 in
- 1960s1960/613.3 m131 in1961/624.6 m180 in1962/634.8 m189 in1963/643.0 m119 in1964/651.9 m74 in1965/664.8 m189 in1966/673.0 m117 in1967/683.0 m118 in1968/694.2 m164 in1969/704.0 m159 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m154 in1971/724.4 m174 in1972/732.6 m102 in1973/744.3 m167 in1974/753.3 m128 in1975/762.8 m108 in1976/775.1 m200 in1977/785.4 m214 in1978/794.0 m156 in1979/803.9 m155 in
- 1980s1980/813.6 m141 in1981/823.9 m152 in1982/834.7 m186 in1983/843.5 m139 in1984/853.1 m120 in1985/864.9 m192 in1986/873.0 m117 in1987/883.7 m144 in1988/893.0 m117 in1989/903.5 m139 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m127 in1991/922.4 m94 in1992/933.2 m126 in1993/943.7 m145 in1994/954.5 m178 in1995/963.4 m133 in1996/974.2 m163 in1997/983.5 m137 in1998/993.0 m118 in1999/003.3 m129 in
- 2000s2000/014.7 m183 in2001/022.3 m89 in2002/033.3 m130 in2003/043.9 m154 in2004/052.3 m92 in2005/062.8 m112 in2006/072.4 m93 in2007/083.1 m124 in2008/095.2 m203 in2009/104.0 m156 in
- 2010s2010/112.9 m114 in2011/123.8 m151 in2012/134.2 m165 in2013/143.8 m148 in2014/153.8 m150 in2015/163.3 m130 in2016/173.9 m154 in2017/185.6 m219 in2018/193.0 m118 in2019/204.6 m183 in
- 2020s2020/212.5 m100 in2021/222.5 m98 in2022/232.9 m113 in2023/245.1 m202 in2024/253.6 m140 in2025/263.0 m117 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