76 winters, day by day
Sellata - Arioso, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sellata - Arioso, 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 11% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.4°F
The trend: from 0°C32°F to 1°C34°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−25%
The trend: from 56 cm22 in to 42 cm17 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 2 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 14 to 9. 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−10%
Then
50.433 cm20 in
Now
45.533 cm18 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
48.2 cm19 in
Now
44.367 cm17 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
1
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.4°F
Then
0°C33°F
Now
1°C34°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
- 1950s1950/5146 cm18 in1951/5246 cm18 in1952/5341 cm16 in1953/5478 cm31 in1954/5540 cm16 in1955/561.0 m40 in1956/5739 cm15 in1957/5864 cm25 in1958/5942 cm17 in1959/6041 cm16 in
- 1960s1960/6112 cm5 in1961/6271 cm28 in1962/631.0 m39 in1963/6415 cm6 in1964/6561 cm24 in1965/6629 cm11 in1966/6743 cm17 in1967/6856 cm22 in1968/6948 cm19 in1969/7069 cm27 in
- 1970s1970/711.0 m40 in1971/7217 cm7 in1972/7363 cm25 in1973/7468 cm27 in1974/7562 cm24 in1975/7639 cm15 in1976/774 cm2 in1977/7842 cm17 in1978/7930 cm12 in1979/8043 cm17 in
- 1980s1980/8172 cm28 in1981/8252 cm20 in1982/8334 cm13 in1983/841.3 m52 in1984/8567 cm26 in1985/8622 cm9 in1986/8749 cm19 in1987/8842 cm17 in1988/8914 cm6 in1989/903 cm1 in
- 1990s1990/9172 cm28 in1991/9230 cm12 in1992/931.1 m44 in1993/9442 cm17 in1994/9564 cm25 in1995/9661 cm24 in1996/9720 cm8 in1997/9851 cm20 in1998/9976 cm30 in1999/0036 cm14 in
- 2000s2000/0134 cm13 in2001/0287 cm34 in2002/0357 cm22 in2003/0486 cm34 in2004/0588 cm35 in2005/061.1 m45 in2006/0718 cm7 in2007/0820 cm8 in2008/0972 cm28 in2009/1028 cm11 in
- 2010s2010/1120 cm8 in2011/1275 cm30 in2012/1340 cm16 in2013/1415 cm6 in2014/1549 cm19 in2015/1616 cm6 in2016/1726 cm10 in2017/1857 cm22 in2018/1953 cm21 in2019/2024 cm9 in
- 2020s2020/2157 cm22 in2021/2252 cm20 in2022/2333 cm13 in2023/2417 cm7 in2024/2537 cm15 in2025/268 cm3 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