76 winters, day by day
Serre-Chevalier, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Serre-Chevalier, France. 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 28% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -9°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−4%
The trend: from 4.4 m173 in to 4.2 m166 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 13 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 170 to 168. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−8 days
The trend: from 168 to 160. 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
4.4 m174 in
Now
4.2 m165 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.0 m79 in
Now
1.6 m63 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
13
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
170
Now
169
- Days with a base in the village−6 days
Then
168
Now
162
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/515.5 m217 in1951/524.0 m156 in1952/533.4 m133 in1953/542.7 m107 in1954/556.0 m234 in1955/563.5 m137 in1956/573.1 m121 in1957/584.2 m165 in1958/594.6 m181 in1959/605.2 m204 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m153 in1961/625.4 m213 in1962/635.2 m204 in1963/643.4 m133 in1964/652.6 m100 in1965/666.4 m251 in1966/674.1 m160 in1967/683.7 m145 in1968/694.6 m180 in1969/705.8 m228 in
- 1970s1970/714.2 m164 in1971/724.4 m173 in1972/733.2 m128 in1973/744.2 m165 in1974/753.9 m154 in1975/762.9 m116 in1976/776.1 m241 in1977/786.4 m250 in1978/795.2 m205 in1979/805.0 m195 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m169 in1981/824.9 m194 in1982/835.5 m215 in1983/844.5 m178 in1984/853.8 m149 in1985/865.6 m221 in1986/873.7 m147 in1987/884.7 m184 in1988/893.6 m140 in1989/904.3 m170 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m142 in1991/923.1 m124 in1992/933.4 m132 in1993/944.5 m179 in1994/955.6 m219 in1995/963.8 m150 in1996/975.0 m198 in1997/984.3 m169 in1998/994.1 m161 in1999/004.1 m163 in
- 2000s2000/016.0 m235 in2001/022.5 m100 in2002/034.0 m158 in2003/044.2 m165 in2004/052.7 m107 in2005/063.7 m147 in2006/073.0 m119 in2007/084.2 m166 in2008/094.6 m181 in2009/104.7 m185 in
- 2010s2010/113.1 m122 in2011/124.4 m174 in2012/134.9 m193 in2013/144.4 m174 in2014/154.0 m157 in2015/164.1 m161 in2016/174.1 m162 in2017/186.2 m243 in2018/193.8 m150 in2019/205.6 m219 in
- 2020s2020/213.4 m132 in2021/223.0 m119 in2022/233.8 m150 in2023/246.0 m238 in2024/254.2 m164 in2025/263.7 m144 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