76 winters, day by day
Skigebiet Ifen, Germany. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Skigebiet Ifen, 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 64% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 5.0 m195 in to 4.4 m172 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 14 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 159 to 148. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−18 days
The trend: from 152 to 134. 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
4.8 m189 in
Now
4.4 m174 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
4.8 m190 in
Now
4.5 m175 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
13
Now
12
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
158
Now
151
- Days with a base in the village−11 days
Then
150
Now
139
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s1950/515.4 m212 in1951/524.7 m186 in1952/534.8 m187 in1953/543.8 m150 in1954/555.3 m209 in1955/564.1 m159 in1956/573.2 m127 in1957/584.7 m186 in1958/593.8 m149 in1959/604.5 m177 in
- 1960s1960/613.8 m148 in1961/625.1 m200 in1962/634.4 m174 in1963/642.9 m113 in1964/655.6 m219 in1965/666.0 m238 in1966/677.0 m275 in1967/685.1 m201 in1968/693.9 m154 in1969/707.2 m285 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m131 in1971/723.6 m141 in1972/734.7 m186 in1973/745.5 m215 in1974/756.1 m239 in1975/763.6 m142 in1976/775.7 m225 in1977/785.5 m215 in1978/794.6 m180 in1979/806.1 m242 in
- 1980s1980/814.9 m193 in1981/826.2 m243 in1982/835.2 m206 in1983/844.8 m189 in1984/854.5 m176 in1985/864.9 m192 in1986/875.1 m202 in1987/885.9 m232 in1988/894.5 m178 in1989/904.0 m156 in
- 1990s1990/913.4 m133 in1991/925.8 m229 in1992/934.2 m166 in1993/945.1 m199 in1994/956.1 m241 in1995/963.3 m128 in1996/974.8 m187 in1997/984.3 m170 in1998/996.6 m259 in1999/006.6 m260 in
- 2000s2000/015.6 m221 in2001/024.3 m167 in2002/033.8 m150 in2003/044.5 m178 in2004/053.9 m152 in2005/064.3 m168 in2006/073.6 m143 in2007/085.7 m223 in2008/094.7 m187 in2009/103.4 m133 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m102 in2011/125.6 m221 in2012/134.6 m182 in2013/143.4 m135 in2014/154.3 m168 in2015/164.1 m162 in2016/173.9 m152 in2017/184.9 m193 in2018/195.5 m215 in2019/204.2 m165 in
- 2020s2020/214.1 m161 in2021/223.9 m152 in2022/234.0 m157 in2023/246.0 m237 in2024/252.8 m109 in2025/263.0 m117 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