76 winters, day by day
Ski Santa Fe, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Ski Santa Fe, 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 43% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -9°C17°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−13%
The trend: from 1.5 m59 in to 1.3 m52 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
−13 days
The trend: from 35 to 21. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 40 to 32. 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−9%
Then
1.4 m55 in
Now
1.3 m50 in
- Snowfall in the village−9%
Then
1.3 m52 in
Now
1.2 m47 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−12 days
Then
27
Now
15
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-8°C17°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/5197 cm38 in1951/522.1 m81 in1952/531.3 m52 in1953/5493 cm37 in1954/5590 cm35 in1955/5695 cm37 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/581.9 m76 in1958/591.2 m49 in1959/601.7 m66 in
- 1960s1960/611.8 m69 in1961/621.5 m59 in1962/631.2 m47 in1963/641.2 m48 in1964/651.8 m72 in1965/661.2 m47 in1966/6772 cm28 in1967/681.8 m71 in1968/691.6 m62 in1969/7094 cm37 in
- 1970s1970/7182 cm32 in1971/7272 cm28 in1972/732.3 m89 in1973/741.4 m56 in1974/751.8 m69 in1975/761.3 m50 in1976/771.3 m52 in1977/781.5 m57 in1978/792.1 m81 in1979/802.0 m78 in
- 1980s1980/811.0 m39 in1981/821.7 m66 in1982/832.3 m90 in1983/842.1 m82 in1984/852.1 m84 in1985/861.4 m55 in1986/872.3 m89 in1987/881.8 m69 in1988/891.1 m44 in1989/901.5 m57 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m64 in1991/921.8 m69 in1992/932.4 m93 in1993/941.5 m57 in1994/951.9 m74 in1995/9693 cm37 in1996/971.9 m74 in1997/981.7 m66 in1998/991.1 m44 in1999/0090 cm35 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m59 in2001/0280 cm31 in2002/031.4 m53 in2003/041.7 m66 in2004/052.2 m85 in2005/0670 cm28 in2006/071.4 m54 in2007/081.5 m60 in2008/091.3 m52 in2009/101.7 m65 in
- 2010s2010/1176 cm30 in2011/121.2 m47 in2012/1379 cm31 in2013/1497 cm38 in2014/151.3 m53 in2015/161.5 m57 in2016/171.7 m67 in2017/1849 cm19 in2018/191.7 m68 in2019/201.6 m61 in
- 2020s2020/211.1 m41 in2021/221.0 m40 in2022/231.4 m54 in2023/241.5 m61 in2024/251.0 m41 in2025/2651 cm20 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