76 winters, day by day
Ski Apache, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Ski Apache, United States. 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 35% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -4°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 42 cm17 in to 31 cm12 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 12 to 9. 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−14%
Then
37.267 cm15 in
Now
31.867 cm13 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
36.867 cm15 in
Now
31.533 cm12 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.1°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/5123 cm9 in1951/5231 cm12 in1952/5328 cm11 in1953/5422 cm9 in1954/5524 cm9 in1955/5642 cm17 in1956/5710 cm4 in1957/5869 cm27 in1958/5921 cm8 in1959/6059 cm23 in
- 1960s1960/6138 cm15 in1961/6260 cm24 in1962/6333 cm13 in1963/6435 cm14 in1964/6529 cm11 in1965/6629 cm11 in1966/6714 cm6 in1967/6876 cm30 in1968/6943 cm17 in1969/7042 cm17 in
- 1970s1970/7117 cm7 in1971/7229 cm11 in1972/7366 cm26 in1973/7426 cm10 in1974/7555 cm22 in1975/7621 cm8 in1976/7769 cm27 in1977/7833 cm13 in1978/7936 cm14 in1979/8038 cm15 in
- 1980s1980/8131 cm12 in1981/8233 cm13 in1982/831.0 m41 in1983/8435 cm14 in1984/8566 cm26 in1985/8639 cm15 in1986/8764 cm25 in1987/8872 cm28 in1988/8939 cm15 in1989/9021 cm8 in
- 1990s1990/9134 cm13 in1991/9245 cm18 in1992/9328 cm11 in1993/9427 cm11 in1994/9518 cm7 in1995/9626 cm10 in1996/9756 cm22 in1997/9868 cm27 in1998/9936 cm14 in1999/0020 cm8 in
- 2000s2000/0164 cm25 in2001/0232 cm13 in2002/0329 cm11 in2003/0428 cm11 in2004/0548 cm19 in2005/067 cm3 in2006/0754 cm21 in2007/0828 cm11 in2008/0915 cm6 in2009/1075 cm30 in
- 2010s2010/1119 cm7 in2011/1246 cm18 in2012/1318 cm7 in2013/1418 cm7 in2014/1539 cm15 in2015/1634 cm13 in2016/1722 cm9 in2017/185 cm2 in2018/1929 cm11 in2019/2022 cm9 in
- 2020s2020/2131 cm12 in2021/2223 cm9 in2022/2329 cm11 in2023/2426 cm10 in2024/2519 cm7 in2025/2616 cm6 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