Schnalstal, 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 26% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.2°F
The trend: from -14°C7°F to -12°C10°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−5%
The trend: from 3.1 m121 in to 2.9 m115 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 6 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 182 to 180. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−9 days
The trend: from 171 to 162. 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−3%
Then
3.1 m120 in
Now
3.0 m117 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
2.7 m105 in
Now
2.4 m96 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
6
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
181
Now
181
- Days with a base in the village−5 days
Then
169
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-14°C7°F
Now
-13°C9°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
- 1950s1950/514.8 m190 in1951/523.2 m125 in1952/532.8 m111 in1953/542.0 m77 in1954/553.0 m116 in1955/562.4 m93 in1956/571.8 m71 in1957/583.2 m125 in1958/592.6 m102 in1959/603.5 m139 in
- 1960s1960/613.1 m121 in1961/623.4 m134 in1962/633.1 m120 in1963/642.8 m111 in1964/652.7 m107 in1965/663.3 m131 in1966/674.1 m160 in1967/683.1 m124 in1968/692.5 m99 in1969/703.7 m144 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m94 in1971/723.0 m120 in1972/732.2 m88 in1973/743.3 m129 in1974/753.6 m143 in1975/761.9 m76 in1976/774.2 m165 in1977/783.7 m144 in1978/793.2 m126 in1979/803.3 m131 in
- 1980s1980/812.6 m102 in1981/822.6 m103 in1982/833.2 m127 in1983/843.1 m121 in1984/852.7 m105 in1985/863.7 m147 in1986/873.0 m116 in1987/882.9 m113 in1988/893.2 m125 in1989/902.9 m115 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m106 in1991/923.5 m139 in1992/932.6 m103 in1993/942.6 m103 in1994/953.4 m132 in1995/961.7 m67 in1996/972.9 m113 in1997/982.9 m114 in1998/993.3 m130 in1999/003.3 m130 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m181 in2001/022.5 m97 in2002/033.5 m137 in2003/043.2 m125 in2004/052.1 m83 in2005/062.6 m100 in2006/072.1 m81 in2007/083.1 m121 in2008/093.9 m154 in2009/102.6 m102 in
- 2010s2010/112.1 m83 in2011/122.9 m114 in2012/133.3 m129 in2013/143.6 m140 in2014/153.2 m127 in2015/162.5 m99 in2016/172.1 m83 in2017/183.3 m130 in2018/193.6 m141 in2019/203.8 m150 in
- 2020s2020/213.0 m120 in2021/222.6 m102 in2022/232.5 m100 in2023/244.5 m176 in2024/252.0 m78 in2025/261.8 m69 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