76 winters, day by day
Santa Caterina, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Santa Caterina, 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 59% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+4.0°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 2.9 m113 in to 2.7 m106 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 6 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 173 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−12 days
The trend: from 167 to 155. 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−4%
Then
2.9 m114 in
Now
2.8 m109 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.1 m83 in
Now
1.8 m72 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
6
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
172
Now
167
- Days with a base in the village−8 days
Then
166
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-12°C11°F
Now
-11°C13°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
- 1950s1950/515.0 m196 in1951/523.1 m123 in1952/532.4 m94 in1953/541.6 m64 in1954/552.6 m104 in1955/562.1 m81 in1956/571.8 m70 in1957/583.2 m125 in1958/592.6 m104 in1959/603.6 m141 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m125 in1961/623.2 m127 in1962/633.0 m117 in1963/643.0 m116 in1964/652.0 m80 in1965/663.0 m117 in1966/673.4 m135 in1967/682.7 m107 in1968/692.7 m105 in1969/703.0 m119 in
- 1970s1970/712.7 m106 in1971/723.2 m125 in1972/731.9 m73 in1973/742.9 m115 in1974/753.1 m121 in1975/761.9 m73 in1976/774.2 m165 in1977/783.5 m138 in1978/793.2 m126 in1979/803.0 m117 in
- 1980s1980/812.1 m83 in1981/822.1 m84 in1982/833.1 m120 in1983/842.6 m103 in1984/852.6 m102 in1985/863.8 m148 in1986/872.5 m98 in1987/882.5 m98 in1988/893.0 m119 in1989/902.5 m100 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m107 in1991/922.9 m113 in1992/932.3 m89 in1993/942.3 m91 in1994/952.7 m106 in1995/961.4 m56 in1996/972.7 m105 in1997/982.8 m108 in1998/992.7 m106 in1999/002.7 m106 in
- 2000s2000/014.7 m183 in2001/022.0 m77 in2002/033.6 m140 in2003/043.2 m124 in2004/051.8 m71 in2005/062.2 m88 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/082.6 m104 in2008/094.2 m163 in2009/102.6 m103 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m89 in2011/122.3 m91 in2012/133.3 m128 in2013/144.0 m157 in2014/153.2 m126 in2015/162.2 m87 in2016/171.8 m71 in2017/183.2 m125 in2018/193.1 m124 in2019/203.8 m148 in
- 2020s2020/213.0 m119 in2021/222.2 m85 in2022/231.9 m76 in2023/244.3 m170 in2024/252.0 m78 in2025/261.6 m62 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