76 winters, day by day
SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental, 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 71% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.4°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−15%
The trend: from 3.7 m146 in to 3.2 m125 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−20 days
The trend: from 153 to 133. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−36 days
The trend: from 149 to 113. 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−10%
Then
3.6 m141 in
Now
3.2 m127 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
1.6 m62 in
Now
1.2 m49 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−14 days
Then
151
Now
137
- Days with a base in the village−21 days
Then
142
Now
120
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°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
All winters
- 1950s1950/514.1 m161 in1951/523.5 m137 in1952/533.4 m132 in1953/542.8 m110 in1954/553.5 m136 in1955/563.1 m122 in1956/572.6 m103 in1957/583.4 m135 in1958/592.3 m91 in1959/603.7 m145 in
- 1960s1960/612.4 m95 in1961/623.9 m153 in1962/633.2 m126 in1963/642.1 m82 in1964/654.6 m180 in1965/664.0 m159 in1966/675.8 m228 in1967/683.7 m146 in1968/692.8 m109 in1969/705.0 m198 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m120 in1971/722.5 m100 in1972/734.1 m162 in1973/744.2 m164 in1974/754.7 m183 in1975/762.9 m114 in1976/774.5 m178 in1977/783.9 m152 in1978/793.3 m131 in1979/804.8 m189 in
- 1980s1980/814.0 m156 in1981/824.9 m194 in1982/833.5 m139 in1983/843.5 m137 in1984/853.2 m124 in1985/863.7 m147 in1986/873.9 m154 in1987/884.0 m157 in1988/893.6 m141 in1989/902.5 m97 in
- 1990s1990/912.3 m92 in1991/924.3 m170 in1992/933.1 m120 in1993/943.2 m126 in1994/954.3 m167 in1995/962.9 m113 in1996/973.3 m128 in1997/983.4 m135 in1998/994.2 m166 in1999/005.0 m198 in
- 2000s2000/013.7 m146 in2001/023.3 m130 in2002/032.7 m104 in2003/043.5 m139 in2004/053.3 m130 in2005/063.7 m147 in2006/072.4 m94 in2007/083.7 m145 in2008/094.1 m163 in2009/102.5 m96 in
- 2010s2010/112.1 m82 in2011/124.0 m157 in2012/133.7 m144 in2013/142.8 m112 in2014/153.1 m122 in2015/162.9 m112 in2016/172.6 m103 in2017/183.5 m139 in2018/194.6 m179 in2019/202.8 m111 in
- 2020s2020/212.9 m114 in2021/223.1 m120 in2022/232.8 m109 in2023/243.5 m138 in2024/251.9 m76 in2025/262.1 m83 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