SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

See, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of See
Average winter
3.9 m155 in
Snowiest winter
5.9 m230 in
Leanest winter
2.3 m89 in
Powder days a winter
9

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 50% of 736 resorts

+2.1°C+3.8°F

The trend: from -11°C11°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-12°10°-10°14°-8°18°

Snowfall at the summit

−7%

The trend: from 4.1 m161 in to 3.8 m150 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.

051015

Days with a base at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 166 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−6 days

The trend: from 78 to 71. Point at a winter to read it.

5060708090100

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 m158 in

Now

3.8 m151 in

Snowfall in the village−18%

Then

1.9 m76 in

Now

1.6 m63 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

9

Now

8

Days with a base at the summit−1 day

Then

165

Now

164

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F

Then

-11°C12°F

Now

-10°C14°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

Most snow in a day
49 cm19 in
Snowiest winter
5.9 m230 in
Leanest winter
2.3 m89 in
Deepest snow on the ground
295 cm116 in
Coldest night at the summit
-41°C-41°F
Strongest gust at the summit
141 km/h88 mph

All winters

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