76 winters, day by day
Ski Center Stara planina, Serbia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Ski Center Stara planina, Serbia. 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 39% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -5°C24°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 1.2 m46 in to 1.0 m41 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−23 days
The trend: from 34 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 33 to 26. 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−7%
Then
1.1 m44 in
Now
1.0 m41 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
1.1 m43 in
Now
1.0 m40 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−14 days
Then
28
Now
14
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-4°C24°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
- 1950s1950/5181 cm32 in1951/521.4 m57 in1952/5389 cm35 in1953/541.3 m53 in1954/551.4 m54 in1955/561.6 m62 in1956/5791 cm36 in1957/581.1 m43 in1958/5957 cm22 in1959/6043 cm17 in
- 1960s1960/6158 cm23 in1961/621.8 m69 in1962/631.4 m55 in1963/6463 cm25 in1964/651.1 m45 in1965/661.1 m43 in1966/671.4 m54 in1967/681.2 m48 in1968/691.8 m72 in1969/701.3 m52 in
- 1970s1970/711.0 m41 in1971/7256 cm22 in1972/731.5 m58 in1973/741.2 m48 in1974/751.3 m50 in1975/7687 cm34 in1976/7796 cm38 in1977/781.3 m50 in1978/7988 cm35 in1979/8097 cm38 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m58 in1981/821.7 m67 in1982/8384 cm33 in1983/841.5 m60 in1984/851.1 m43 in1985/861.4 m54 in1986/871.3 m51 in1987/881.2 m48 in1988/8999 cm39 in1989/9081 cm32 in
- 1990s1990/911.0 m40 in1991/921.2 m47 in1992/9389 cm35 in1993/9490 cm35 in1994/951.2 m49 in1995/961.8 m70 in1996/971.1 m42 in1997/9888 cm35 in1998/991.4 m53 in1999/001.2 m49 in
- 2000s2000/0176 cm30 in2001/0285 cm33 in2002/0378 cm31 in2003/0486 cm34 in2004/051.2 m45 in2005/061.4 m53 in2006/0763 cm25 in2007/0891 cm36 in2008/091.5 m58 in2009/101.1 m44 in
- 2010s2010/1181 cm32 in2011/121.6 m61 in2012/131.0 m40 in2013/1452 cm20 in2014/151.4 m56 in2015/1677 cm30 in2016/1790 cm35 in2017/181.6 m61 in2018/191.2 m47 in2019/201.2 m46 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m62 in2021/221.1 m44 in2022/2377 cm30 in2023/2467 cm26 in2024/2576 cm30 in2025/2663 cm25 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