Sestriere, 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 73% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 3.2 m128 in to 2.9 m113 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 7 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 166 to 155. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 59 to 53. 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−12%
Then
3.3 m129 in
Now
2.9 m114 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
2.5 m99 in
Now
1.9 m77 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
7
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
166
Now
159
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/513.5 m136 in1951/521.8 m72 in1952/531.9 m74 in1953/542.5 m99 in1954/553.8 m150 in1955/563.0 m118 in1956/572.3 m90 in1957/583.2 m126 in1958/593.8 m148 in1959/604.8 m187 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m108 in1961/623.8 m149 in1962/634.2 m167 in1963/642.6 m103 in1964/651.7 m65 in1965/663.4 m132 in1966/672.3 m89 in1967/682.5 m99 in1968/693.9 m153 in1969/703.0 m118 in
- 1970s1970/713.7 m146 in1971/725.0 m196 in1972/732.6 m101 in1973/744.5 m176 in1974/753.2 m125 in1975/763.1 m122 in1976/774.2 m165 in1977/785.0 m197 in1978/793.3 m131 in1979/803.6 m143 in
- 1980s1980/812.6 m102 in1981/823.3 m131 in1982/834.1 m161 in1983/842.9 m113 in1984/852.7 m107 in1985/864.4 m173 in1986/872.6 m101 in1987/882.9 m113 in1988/892.4 m93 in1989/902.5 m99 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m118 in1991/922.0 m77 in1992/932.7 m107 in1993/943.2 m124 in1994/952.8 m109 in1995/963.2 m127 in1996/973.2 m125 in1997/982.8 m111 in1998/992.4 m93 in1999/002.4 m95 in
- 2000s2000/013.4 m133 in2001/022.3 m89 in2002/032.7 m105 in2003/043.9 m154 in2004/051.9 m75 in2005/062.2 m86 in2006/071.7 m67 in2007/082.5 m97 in2008/094.9 m193 in2009/103.4 m134 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m108 in2011/122.5 m100 in2012/133.5 m138 in2013/143.4 m132 in2014/153.1 m122 in2015/162.5 m97 in2016/172.8 m111 in2017/185.1 m200 in2018/192.1 m81 in2019/203.7 m144 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m83 in2021/221.9 m73 in2022/232.0 m80 in2023/244.2 m164 in2024/252.8 m109 in2025/262.8 m110 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