SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

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

Painting of Skigebiet Hinterstoder
Average winter
2.8 m112 in
Snowiest winter
4.4 m171 in
Leanest winter
1.5 m57 in
Powder days a winter
4

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 74% of 736 resorts

+2.5°C+4.5°F

The trend: from -8°C17°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−10%

The trend: from 3.0 m118 in to 2.7 m106 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 5 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.

0510

Days with a base at the summit

−29 days

The trend: from 156 to 127. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−6 days

The trend: from 67 to 61. Point at a winter to read it.

406080100

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−6%

Then

2.9 m114 in

Now

2.7 m107 in

Snowfall in the village−16%

Then

1.0 m41 in

Now

88.133 cm35 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

4

Now

4

Days with a base at the summit−17 days

Then

150

Now

133

Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F

Then

-8°C18°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
32 cm13 in
Snowiest winter
4.4 m171 in
Leanest winter
1.5 m57 in
Deepest snow on the ground
224 cm88 in
Coldest night at the summit
-36°C-32°F
Strongest gust at the summit
131 km/h82 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