76 winters, day by day
Ski Juwel Alpbachtal-Wildschönau, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Ski Juwel Alpbachtal-Wildschönau, 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.
Loading the daily snowfall…
Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 65% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 3.8 m148 in to 3.4 m133 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 160 to 145. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−24 days
The trend: from 154 to 130. 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
3.7 m145 in
Now
3.4 m135 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
1.8 m73 in
Now
1.5 m58 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
158
Now
148
- Days with a base in the village−16 days
Then
151
Now
135
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/515.0 m196 in1951/523.5 m138 in1952/533.1 m122 in1953/542.8 m111 in1954/553.5 m137 in1955/563.0 m117 in1956/572.8 m108 in1957/583.5 m137 in1958/592.7 m108 in1959/603.9 m152 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m104 in1961/624.2 m164 in1962/633.1 m121 in1963/642.4 m95 in1964/654.7 m185 in1965/664.2 m165 in1966/675.8 m229 in1967/683.7 m147 in1968/692.8 m109 in1969/704.9 m194 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m114 in1971/723.1 m122 in1972/733.8 m151 in1973/744.0 m157 in1974/754.8 m189 in1975/762.9 m113 in1976/774.8 m189 in1977/784.0 m157 in1978/793.7 m145 in1979/804.6 m182 in
- 1980s1980/813.6 m142 in1981/824.2 m166 in1982/833.7 m147 in1983/843.6 m140 in1984/853.3 m130 in1985/864.1 m160 in1986/874.0 m156 in1987/883.9 m154 in1988/893.7 m146 in1989/902.9 m115 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m106 in1991/924.7 m183 in1992/933.4 m132 in1993/943.2 m125 in1994/954.3 m168 in1995/962.6 m103 in1996/973.4 m134 in1997/983.5 m138 in1998/994.2 m165 in1999/004.7 m186 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m180 in2001/023.4 m135 in2002/032.8 m111 in2003/043.6 m143 in2004/053.0 m119 in2005/063.4 m135 in2006/072.7 m106 in2007/084.0 m157 in2008/094.1 m163 in2009/102.7 m107 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m87 in2011/123.8 m150 in2012/133.8 m148 in2013/143.6 m141 in2014/153.3 m129 in2015/163.2 m125 in2016/172.9 m114 in2017/183.7 m147 in2018/194.5 m176 in2019/203.4 m134 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m129 in2021/223.2 m125 in2022/233.2 m125 in2023/244.3 m170 in2024/252.2 m85 in2025/262.2 m87 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