76 winters, day by day
Skigebiet Almenwelt Lofer, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Skigebiet Almenwelt Lofer, 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 78% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.7°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 4.0 m157 in to 3.5 m138 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−27 days
The trend: from 158 to 131. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 74 to 65. 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
3.9 m152 in
Now
3.6 m140 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
1.5 m61 in
Now
1.3 m50 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
9
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−16 days
Then
153
Now
137
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C24°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
- 1950s1950/514.3 m168 in1951/523.9 m154 in1952/533.5 m137 in1953/543.0 m117 in1954/553.8 m151 in1955/563.4 m135 in1956/573.1 m121 in1957/583.6 m143 in1958/592.4 m93 in1959/603.9 m154 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m102 in1961/624.3 m169 in1962/633.3 m130 in1963/642.2 m87 in1964/655.0 m198 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/676.3 m246 in1967/683.9 m155 in1968/693.0 m118 in1969/705.3 m207 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m128 in1971/722.7 m105 in1972/734.4 m172 in1973/744.6 m179 in1974/755.2 m203 in1975/763.3 m128 in1976/774.9 m192 in1977/784.3 m169 in1978/793.5 m137 in1979/805.2 m206 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m167 in1981/825.4 m211 in1982/834.0 m158 in1983/843.7 m146 in1984/853.4 m134 in1985/864.1 m161 in1986/874.4 m173 in1987/884.4 m175 in1988/893.9 m155 in1989/902.6 m102 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m96 in1991/924.7 m183 in1992/933.4 m134 in1993/943.6 m141 in1994/954.6 m183 in1995/963.1 m121 in1996/973.7 m146 in1997/983.9 m153 in1998/994.6 m180 in1999/005.5 m216 in
- 2000s2000/014.0 m157 in2001/023.6 m143 in2002/032.8 m109 in2003/043.9 m152 in2004/053.7 m144 in2005/064.2 m164 in2006/072.7 m106 in2007/084.1 m160 in2008/094.7 m186 in2009/102.7 m106 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m88 in2011/124.5 m176 in2012/133.9 m153 in2013/143.0 m120 in2014/153.4 m133 in2015/162.9 m114 in2016/172.9 m115 in2017/183.9 m152 in2018/195.0 m198 in2019/203.2 m127 in
- 2020s2020/213.2 m126 in2021/223.5 m137 in2022/233.1 m120 in2023/243.9 m155 in2024/252.1 m83 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