76 winters, day by day
Shahdag Mountain Resort, Azerbaijan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Shahdag Mountain Resort, Azerbaijan. 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 6% of 736 resorts
+1.0°C+1.7°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+10%
The trend: from 1.6 m61 in to 1.7 m67 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 2 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 108 to 106. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 89 to 82. 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+6%
Then
1.6 m62 in
Now
1.7 m66 in
- Snowfall in the village+4%
Then
1.3 m50 in
Now
1.3 m52 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
2
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
104
Now
101
- Days with a base in the village−7 days
Then
83
Now
76
- Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.1°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/5197 cm38 in1951/521.8 m69 in1952/531.4 m56 in1953/542.1 m83 in1954/551.3 m50 in1955/562.3 m89 in1956/571.7 m65 in1957/581.3 m52 in1958/591.4 m54 in1959/601.7 m66 in
- 1960s1960/611.2 m48 in1961/621.5 m59 in1962/631.4 m55 in1963/642.1 m81 in1964/651.5 m58 in1965/661.3 m51 in1966/671.6 m62 in1967/681.7 m69 in1968/691.8 m71 in1969/701.2 m47 in
- 1970s1970/711.6 m64 in1971/721.5 m58 in1972/732.0 m80 in1973/742.1 m83 in1974/751.4 m54 in1975/761.5 m57 in1976/771.1 m44 in1977/781.4 m56 in1978/792.1 m83 in1979/801.6 m61 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m52 in1981/821.7 m67 in1982/831.6 m61 in1983/841.5 m57 in1984/851.5 m59 in1985/861.3 m49 in1986/871.7 m65 in1987/881.8 m70 in1988/891.6 m64 in1989/901.8 m69 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m56 in1991/921.7 m69 in1992/932.6 m102 in1993/941.6 m64 in1994/951.7 m65 in1995/961.3 m50 in1996/971.6 m64 in1997/981.4 m53 in1998/991.3 m52 in1999/001.4 m56 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m52 in2001/022.0 m77 in2002/031.8 m72 in2003/042.8 m108 in2004/051.9 m74 in2005/061.3 m50 in2006/072.2 m86 in2007/081.5 m60 in2008/091.9 m74 in2009/101.9 m73 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m58 in2011/121.6 m65 in2012/131.4 m56 in2013/141.4 m55 in2014/152.1 m82 in2015/162.3 m90 in2016/171.6 m63 in2017/181.9 m74 in2018/191.5 m57 in2019/201.7 m66 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m57 in2021/221.8 m70 in2022/2390 cm35 in2023/241.4 m56 in2024/251.7 m67 in2025/262.0 m77 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