Sinaia, Romania. 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 21% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.9°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−20%
The trend: from 1.3 m50 in to 1.0 m41 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 73 to 64. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−28 days
The trend: from 52 to 24. 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−11%
Then
1.2 m47 in
Now
1.1 m42 in
- Snowfall in the village−16%
Then
82.267 cm32 in
Now
69.1 cm27 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
68
Now
62
- Days with a base in the village−17 days
Then
44
Now
27
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/5182 cm32 in1951/5298 cm39 in1952/531.4 m54 in1953/541.4 m54 in1954/552.1 m82 in1955/561.6 m63 in1956/5785 cm33 in1957/581.2 m47 in1958/5955 cm22 in1959/6090 cm35 in
- 1960s1960/6158 cm23 in1961/621.6 m63 in1962/631.5 m57 in1963/6486 cm34 in1964/651.2 m48 in1965/661.5 m57 in1966/671.2 m46 in1967/681.1 m42 in1968/692.0 m77 in1969/702.0 m80 in
- 1970s1970/711.1 m42 in1971/7294 cm37 in1972/731.2 m46 in1973/7490 cm35 in1974/7591 cm36 in1975/761.3 m52 in1976/7797 cm38 in1977/7893 cm37 in1978/791.3 m51 in1979/801.3 m52 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m67 in1981/821.3 m49 in1982/8358 cm23 in1983/841.9 m76 in1984/851.4 m55 in1985/861.4 m57 in1986/871.3 m51 in1987/881.8 m69 in1988/8968 cm27 in1989/9063 cm25 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m50 in1991/9282 cm32 in1992/931.0 m41 in1993/9494 cm37 in1994/951.1 m42 in1995/962.1 m81 in1996/971.4 m56 in1997/981.2 m46 in1998/991.1 m44 in1999/001.1 m42 in
- 2000s2000/0180 cm31 in2001/0271 cm28 in2002/031.3 m52 in2003/041.2 m47 in2004/051.4 m56 in2005/061.3 m50 in2006/0772 cm28 in2007/081.1 m44 in2008/091.2 m46 in2009/101.5 m60 in
- 2010s2010/1198 cm39 in2011/121.2 m46 in2012/131.2 m47 in2013/1488 cm35 in2014/151.3 m50 in2015/1683 cm33 in2016/1789 cm35 in2017/181.3 m50 in2018/191.3 m49 in2019/2052 cm20 in
- 2020s2020/211.4 m56 in2021/2267 cm26 in2022/2390 cm35 in2023/2471 cm28 in2024/2586 cm34 in2025/2695 cm37 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