76 winters, day by day
Schladming Dachstein, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Schladming Dachstein, Austria. 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 61% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−6%
The trend: from 4.1 m159 in to 3.8 m151 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−18 days
The trend: from 161 to 143. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 77 to 71. 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
4.0 m156 in
Now
3.8 m151 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
1.5 m60 in
Now
1.3 m52 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
9
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−12 days
Then
158
Now
145
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/514.0 m157 in1951/524.4 m172 in1952/533.3 m129 in1953/543.0 m118 in1954/554.3 m169 in1955/563.7 m144 in1956/573.7 m144 in1957/584.0 m157 in1958/592.6 m104 in1959/604.0 m156 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m107 in1961/624.7 m185 in1962/633.1 m122 in1963/642.6 m101 in1964/655.6 m220 in1965/664.2 m165 in1966/676.2 m242 in1967/683.9 m152 in1968/692.9 m115 in1969/704.9 m194 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m134 in1971/722.9 m115 in1972/734.1 m159 in1973/744.5 m177 in1974/755.4 m211 in1975/763.6 m142 in1976/774.7 m185 in1977/784.2 m167 in1978/793.5 m137 in1979/805.3 m209 in
- 1980s1980/814.0 m158 in1981/825.3 m207 in1982/834.3 m170 in1983/843.9 m154 in1984/853.3 m131 in1985/864.2 m163 in1986/874.7 m187 in1987/884.7 m185 in1988/894.6 m181 in1989/902.9 m115 in
- 1990s1990/912.5 m99 in1991/925.2 m204 in1992/933.9 m154 in1993/943.9 m154 in1994/954.9 m193 in1995/963.3 m131 in1996/974.1 m160 in1997/984.0 m158 in1998/994.4 m174 in1999/005.5 m216 in
- 2000s2000/013.9 m154 in2001/023.9 m155 in2002/032.9 m115 in2003/044.1 m163 in2004/054.1 m163 in2005/064.2 m163 in2006/073.2 m124 in2007/084.4 m174 in2008/094.9 m194 in2009/103.0 m117 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m94 in2011/124.7 m185 in2012/134.2 m165 in2013/143.3 m128 in2014/153.6 m143 in2015/162.9 m115 in2016/173.6 m141 in2017/184.0 m158 in2018/195.3 m210 in2019/203.6 m143 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m131 in2021/224.0 m156 in2022/233.8 m150 in2023/244.7 m187 in2024/252.3 m91 in2025/262.3 m89 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