76 winters, day by day
Skiregion Dachstein West, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Skiregion Dachstein West, 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 73% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 4.1 m159 in to 3.7 m146 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−22 days
The trend: from 159 to 138. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 76 to 69. 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−5%
Then
3.9 m155 in
Now
3.7 m147 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
1.9 m74 in
Now
1.6 m64 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
9
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−14 days
Then
156
Now
142
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-4°C25°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
- 1950s1950/514.0 m159 in1951/524.3 m169 in1952/533.3 m131 in1953/543.0 m117 in1954/554.2 m167 in1955/563.6 m143 in1956/573.5 m137 in1957/583.8 m151 in1958/592.5 m96 in1959/603.9 m155 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m106 in1961/624.7 m183 in1962/633.2 m125 in1963/642.4 m95 in1964/655.4 m213 in1965/664.1 m163 in1966/676.3 m249 in1967/683.9 m154 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/705.0 m197 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m133 in1971/722.7 m108 in1972/734.2 m163 in1973/744.5 m179 in1974/755.3 m209 in1975/763.5 m138 in1976/774.8 m188 in1977/784.3 m170 in1978/793.4 m134 in1979/805.3 m209 in
- 1980s1980/814.1 m162 in1981/825.4 m212 in1982/834.2 m167 in1983/843.9 m152 in1984/853.3 m131 in1985/864.1 m163 in1986/874.7 m183 in1987/884.7 m185 in1988/894.4 m172 in1989/902.8 m109 in
- 1990s1990/912.5 m97 in1991/925.0 m198 in1992/933.8 m149 in1993/943.9 m152 in1994/954.8 m191 in1995/963.2 m127 in1996/974.0 m156 in1997/984.0 m156 in1998/994.5 m179 in1999/005.5 m216 in
- 2000s2000/013.8 m148 in2001/023.8 m150 in2002/032.9 m113 in2003/044.1 m159 in2004/054.1 m161 in2005/064.2 m166 in2006/073.0 m120 in2007/084.3 m170 in2008/094.9 m192 in2009/102.9 m113 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m93 in2011/124.7 m185 in2012/134.0 m159 in2013/143.1 m122 in2014/153.5 m138 in2015/162.8 m111 in2016/173.4 m132 in2017/184.0 m156 in2018/195.3 m210 in2019/203.6 m140 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m130 in2021/223.9 m152 in2022/233.6 m140 in2023/244.4 m174 in2024/252.2 m88 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