Ski Arlberg, 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 60% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 5.0 m196 in to 4.4 m173 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
−7 days
The trend: from 165 to 158. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 77 to 72. 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
4.8 m190 in
Now
4.5 m175 in
- Snowfall in the village−16%
Then
2.9 m115 in
Now
2.4 m96 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
13
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
164
Now
160
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-11°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
All winters
- 1950s1950/515.4 m212 in1951/524.8 m188 in1952/534.8 m188 in1953/543.9 m152 in1954/555.3 m210 in1955/564.1 m160 in1956/573.2 m128 in1957/584.8 m189 in1958/593.8 m150 in1959/604.5 m178 in
- 1960s1960/613.8 m149 in1961/625.1 m200 in1962/634.5 m175 in1963/642.9 m114 in1964/655.6 m219 in1965/666.1 m239 in1966/677.0 m276 in1967/685.1 m202 in1968/693.9 m155 in1969/707.3 m286 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m132 in1971/723.6 m141 in1972/734.7 m186 in1973/745.5 m216 in1974/756.1 m239 in1975/763.6 m142 in1976/775.7 m226 in1977/785.5 m217 in1978/794.6 m180 in1979/806.1 m242 in
- 1980s1980/814.9 m193 in1981/826.2 m243 in1982/835.3 m207 in1983/844.8 m189 in1984/854.5 m177 in1985/864.9 m193 in1986/875.2 m203 in1987/885.9 m233 in1988/894.6 m180 in1989/904.0 m158 in
- 1990s1990/913.4 m135 in1991/925.8 m230 in1992/934.3 m167 in1993/945.1 m200 in1994/956.2 m243 in1995/963.3 m129 in1996/974.8 m189 in1997/984.3 m171 in1998/996.6 m259 in1999/006.6 m261 in
- 2000s2000/015.7 m222 in2001/024.3 m169 in2002/033.9 m152 in2003/044.5 m178 in2004/053.9 m153 in2005/064.3 m169 in2006/073.7 m145 in2007/085.7 m224 in2008/094.8 m187 in2009/103.4 m134 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m103 in2011/125.6 m221 in2012/134.7 m183 in2013/143.5 m137 in2014/154.3 m169 in2015/164.1 m163 in2016/173.9 m152 in2017/184.9 m194 in2018/195.5 m215 in2019/204.2 m167 in
- 2020s2020/214.1 m161 in2021/223.9 m153 in2022/234.1 m160 in2023/246.1 m239 in2024/252.8 m110 in2025/263.0 m119 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