76 winters, day by day
Skigebiet Garmisch-Classic, Germany. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Skigebiet Garmisch-Classic, Germany. 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 89% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.3°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−21%
The trend: from 3.2 m125 in to 2.5 m99 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 5 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−21 days
The trend: from 154 to 133. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 66 to 55. 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−14%
Then
3.0 m119 in
Now
2.6 m103 in
- Snowfall in the village−27%
Then
1.4 m56 in
Now
1.0 m41 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
5
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−13 days
Then
151
Now
137
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.1°F
Then
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/513.8 m148 in1951/522.8 m108 in1952/533.1 m123 in1953/542.4 m94 in1954/553.0 m117 in1955/562.4 m96 in1956/571.8 m69 in1957/583.2 m124 in1958/592.1 m84 in1959/602.9 m114 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m86 in1961/623.1 m123 in1962/632.8 m110 in1963/641.9 m73 in1964/653.4 m135 in1965/663.4 m132 in1966/674.7 m184 in1967/683.5 m137 in1968/692.4 m93 in1969/704.6 m180 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m94 in1971/722.3 m91 in1972/733.6 m141 in1973/743.5 m136 in1974/753.8 m149 in1975/762.5 m98 in1976/773.8 m148 in1977/783.4 m133 in1978/792.8 m112 in1979/803.9 m154 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m130 in1981/824.2 m163 in1982/833.0 m117 in1983/843.0 m119 in1984/852.5 m98 in1985/863.1 m120 in1986/872.9 m114 in1987/883.3 m131 in1988/892.7 m106 in1989/902.2 m87 in
- 1990s1990/912.0 m80 in1991/923.5 m139 in1992/932.2 m88 in1993/942.7 m105 in1994/953.6 m141 in1995/962.3 m92 in1996/972.6 m102 in1997/982.7 m105 in1998/993.7 m146 in1999/004.1 m163 in
- 2000s2000/013.3 m130 in2001/022.4 m96 in2002/032.1 m81 in2003/042.9 m113 in2004/052.6 m100 in2005/063.0 m117 in2006/071.9 m75 in2007/083.1 m123 in2008/093.2 m126 in2009/102.2 m85 in
- 2010s2010/111.7 m68 in2011/123.3 m129 in2012/132.9 m113 in2013/142.2 m86 in2014/152.6 m101 in2015/162.6 m103 in2016/172.2 m85 in2017/182.9 m113 in2018/193.2 m126 in2019/202.2 m88 in
- 2020s2020/212.5 m97 in2021/222.2 m87 in2022/232.0 m78 in2023/242.8 m111 in2024/251.6 m63 in2025/261.8 m72 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