76 winters, day by day
Silvretta Montafon, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Silvretta Montafon, Austria. 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 57% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+4.0°F
The trend: from -11°C13°F to -8°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 4.9 m194 in to 4.5 m176 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 14 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 167 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 166 to 159. 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
4.8 m188 in
Now
4.5 m178 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
1.4 m54 in
Now
1.1 m43 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
13
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
167
Now
165
- Days with a base in the village−3 days
Then
164
Now
161
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°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
- 1950s1950/515.7 m225 in1951/524.9 m193 in1952/534.7 m184 in1953/543.7 m145 in1954/555.4 m212 in1955/563.9 m154 in1956/573.1 m123 in1957/584.7 m185 in1958/593.7 m146 in1959/604.6 m183 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m160 in1961/625.0 m197 in1962/634.5 m176 in1963/643.0 m117 in1964/655.5 m217 in1965/665.8 m230 in1966/676.9 m270 in1967/685.2 m204 in1968/693.9 m153 in1969/706.9 m272 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m135 in1971/723.7 m144 in1972/734.3 m171 in1973/745.4 m213 in1974/756.3 m246 in1975/763.4 m135 in1976/775.7 m225 in1977/785.5 m217 in1978/794.5 m176 in1979/806.0 m236 in
- 1980s1980/814.8 m187 in1981/825.9 m231 in1982/835.2 m206 in1983/844.9 m191 in1984/854.4 m172 in1985/864.9 m194 in1986/875.1 m202 in1987/885.8 m227 in1988/894.6 m182 in1989/904.1 m160 in
- 1990s1990/913.5 m139 in1991/926.0 m237 in1992/934.6 m181 in1993/944.8 m188 in1994/956.1 m239 in1995/963.1 m122 in1996/974.8 m187 in1997/984.4 m174 in1998/996.5 m256 in1999/006.5 m256 in
- 2000s2000/016.0 m235 in2001/024.5 m176 in2002/034.1 m160 in2003/044.5 m178 in2004/053.9 m152 in2005/064.1 m163 in2006/073.8 m148 in2007/085.7 m223 in2008/095.0 m198 in2009/103.6 m142 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m112 in2011/125.5 m218 in2012/134.4 m174 in2013/143.8 m149 in2014/154.4 m172 in2015/164.1 m161 in2016/173.8 m149 in2017/185.0 m196 in2018/195.6 m219 in2019/204.5 m176 in
- 2020s2020/214.2 m165 in2021/224.0 m156 in2022/233.9 m155 in2023/246.6 m259 in2024/252.8 m109 in2025/263.0 m118 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