SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Ski amadé, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Ski amadé
Average winter
3.6 m140 in
Snowiest winter
5.3 m209 in
Leanest winter
2.1 m82 in
Powder days a winter
6

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 42% of 736 resorts

+2.0°C+3.6°F

The trend: from -11°C12°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-12°10°-10°14°-8°18°

Snowfall at the summit

−6%

The trend: from 3.7 m144 in to 3.5 m136 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 6 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.

051015

Days with a base at the summit

−14 days

The trend: from 164 to 150. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with a base in the village

−23 days

The trend: from 158 to 135. Point at a winter to read it.

100150

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

3.6 m143 in

Now

3.4 m136 in

Snowfall in the village−22%

Then

1.1 m44 in

Now

87.733 cm35 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

6

Now

6

Days with a base at the summit−9 days

Then

161

Now

152

Days with a base in the village−15 days

Then

154

Now

139

Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.1°F

Then

-10°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

Most snow in a day
45 cm18 in
Snowiest winter
5.3 m209 in
Leanest winter
2.1 m82 in
Deepest snow on the ground
273 cm107 in
Coldest night at the summit
-37°C-35°F
Strongest gust at the summit
135 km/h84 mph

All winters

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