76 winters, day by day
Skagahøgdi skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Skagahøgdi skisenter, Norway. 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 98% of 736 resorts
+3.5°C+6.3°F
The trend: from -10°C15°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+14%
The trend: from 1.8 m69 in to 2.0 m78 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 167 to 151. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 50 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+8%
Then
1.8 m70 in
Now
1.9 m76 in
- Snowfall in the village−4%
Then
1.4 m54 in
Now
1.3 m52 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
1
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
164
Now
155
- Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+4.0°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m105 in1951/521.7 m65 in1952/531.1 m45 in1953/541.5 m59 in1954/551.8 m71 in1955/561.3 m52 in1956/571.4 m54 in1957/581.2 m48 in1958/591.5 m59 in1959/602.7 m106 in
- 1960s1960/611.9 m75 in1961/622.1 m82 in1962/631.2 m46 in1963/6498 cm39 in1964/651.7 m65 in1965/661.9 m74 in1966/672.7 m105 in1967/681.8 m72 in1968/691.9 m76 in1969/701.9 m76 in
- 1970s1970/712.1 m83 in1971/722.0 m79 in1972/731.2 m48 in1973/741.9 m76 in1974/751.9 m76 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/772.4 m93 in1977/782.5 m97 in1978/791.7 m67 in1979/801.6 m64 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m61 in1981/821.9 m74 in1982/832.1 m82 in1983/841.5 m58 in1984/852.4 m93 in1985/861.8 m72 in1986/872.0 m79 in1987/882.6 m103 in1988/891.7 m65 in1989/902.2 m87 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m58 in1991/921.9 m74 in1992/931.9 m74 in1993/942.1 m83 in1994/952.5 m100 in1995/9699 cm39 in1996/971.3 m49 in1997/982.5 m98 in1998/992.0 m77 in1999/001.8 m69 in
- 2000s2000/013.2 m126 in2001/021.7 m67 in2002/031.5 m58 in2003/041.7 m66 in2004/051.3 m51 in2005/061.7 m67 in2006/072.0 m80 in2007/082.8 m111 in2008/092.0 m77 in2009/102.0 m78 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m44 in2011/121.7 m67 in2012/131.4 m56 in2013/142.9 m114 in2014/151.9 m76 in2015/161.9 m75 in2016/171.7 m65 in2017/182.3 m89 in2018/191.8 m70 in2019/202.4 m95 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m83 in2021/221.2 m47 in2022/232.8 m109 in2023/242.5 m97 in2024/251.2 m49 in2025/261.6 m63 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