76 winters, day by day
Schmittenhöhe Zell am See, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Schmittenhöhe Zell am See, 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 45% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 4.0 m157 in to 3.7 m146 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 8 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 170 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−22 days
The trend: from 158 to 136. 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
4.0 m156 in
Now
3.7 m147 in
- Snowfall in the village−23%
Then
1.4 m57 in
Now
1.1 m44 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
8
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
167
Now
163
- Days with a base in the village−14 days
Then
155
Now
140
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.1°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/515.3 m207 in1951/524.0 m156 in1952/533.1 m123 in1953/542.9 m115 in1954/553.6 m142 in1955/563.3 m130 in1956/573.2 m126 in1957/583.7 m146 in1958/592.9 m115 in1959/604.1 m162 in
- 1960s1960/612.9 m115 in1961/624.6 m180 in1962/633.2 m128 in1963/642.7 m104 in1964/655.1 m202 in1965/664.4 m173 in1966/676.0 m235 in1967/684.0 m159 in1968/693.0 m118 in1969/705.1 m200 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m126 in1971/723.4 m134 in1972/733.9 m154 in1973/744.2 m163 in1974/755.2 m205 in1975/763.2 m124 in1976/775.1 m202 in1977/784.5 m176 in1978/793.9 m152 in1979/805.0 m195 in
- 1980s1980/814.0 m156 in1981/824.5 m176 in1982/834.2 m163 in1983/843.6 m143 in1984/853.5 m137 in1985/864.4 m174 in1986/874.2 m165 in1987/884.3 m168 in1988/894.0 m158 in1989/903.0 m119 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m114 in1991/925.0 m197 in1992/933.5 m138 in1993/943.4 m134 in1994/954.4 m174 in1995/962.8 m111 in1996/973.8 m151 in1997/983.9 m155 in1998/994.2 m166 in1999/005.1 m199 in
- 2000s2000/014.9 m194 in2001/023.7 m146 in2002/033.0 m117 in2003/043.9 m154 in2004/053.3 m130 in2005/063.8 m150 in2006/072.9 m115 in2007/084.2 m164 in2008/094.7 m186 in2009/103.0 m119 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m96 in2011/124.0 m159 in2012/134.0 m158 in2013/144.0 m157 in2014/153.6 m140 in2015/163.3 m128 in2016/173.2 m125 in2017/184.0 m158 in2018/194.8 m190 in2019/204.0 m156 in
- 2020s2020/213.7 m144 in2021/223.6 m143 in2022/233.5 m138 in2023/244.8 m187 in2024/252.4 m95 in2025/262.3 m91 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