SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Skigebiet Diedamskopf, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Skigebiet Diedamskopf
Average winter
4.3 m171 in
Snowiest winter
6.9 m273 in
Leanest winter
2.5 m97 in
Powder days a winter
12

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 64% 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.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−14%

The trend: from 4.7 m184 in to 4.0 m157 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 13 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.

1020

Days with a base at the summit

−13 days

The trend: from 158 to 146. Point at a winter to read it.

100150

Days with a base in the village

−26 days

The trend: from 152 to 126. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150200

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

4.5 m177 in

Now

4.1 m161 in

Snowfall in the village−22%

Then

1.9 m73 in

Now

1.4 m57 in

Powder days at the summit−2 days

Then

13

Now

11

Days with a base at the summit−8 days

Then

157

Now

149

Days with a base in the village−15 days

Then

148

Now

133

Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°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

Most snow in a day
46 cm18 in
Snowiest winter
6.9 m273 in
Leanest winter
2.5 m97 in
Deepest snow on the ground
311 cm122 in
Coldest night at the summit
-37°C-35°F
Strongest gust at the summit
127 km/h79 mph

All winters

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