76 winters, day by day
Snow Space Salzburg, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Snow Space Salzburg, 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 49% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 3.6 m142 in to 3.3 m131 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 6 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 164 to 148. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−26 days
The trend: from 157 to 131. 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−6%
Then
3.6 m140 in
Now
3.3 m131 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
89.3 cm35 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
161
Now
151
- Days with a base in the village−17 days
Then
153
Now
136
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/514.8 m189 in1951/523.6 m141 in1952/532.6 m104 in1953/542.7 m106 in1954/553.3 m130 in1955/562.9 m115 in1956/573.0 m119 in1957/583.4 m133 in1958/592.6 m101 in1959/603.8 m148 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m99 in1961/624.2 m164 in1962/632.9 m113 in1963/642.3 m90 in1964/654.9 m191 in1965/663.8 m148 in1966/675.3 m210 in1967/683.5 m137 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/704.5 m179 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m116 in1971/723.0 m117 in1972/733.6 m142 in1973/743.7 m145 in1974/754.8 m189 in1975/762.9 m114 in1976/774.6 m182 in1977/784.1 m162 in1978/793.4 m135 in1979/804.5 m178 in
- 1980s1980/813.5 m138 in1981/824.0 m158 in1982/833.8 m148 in1983/843.4 m135 in1984/853.1 m120 in1985/864.1 m159 in1986/873.8 m150 in1987/884.0 m157 in1988/893.6 m142 in1989/902.7 m106 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m101 in1991/924.9 m191 in1992/933.2 m125 in1993/943.1 m122 in1994/953.9 m155 in1995/962.6 m102 in1996/973.3 m130 in1997/983.5 m136 in1998/993.6 m141 in1999/004.3 m170 in
- 2000s2000/014.3 m169 in2001/023.3 m129 in2002/032.5 m96 in2003/043.6 m143 in2004/053.1 m122 in2005/063.4 m134 in2006/072.7 m107 in2007/083.6 m141 in2008/094.4 m174 in2009/102.8 m110 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m87 in2011/123.5 m139 in2012/133.7 m146 in2013/143.7 m145 in2014/153.0 m118 in2015/162.9 m112 in2016/172.9 m114 in2017/183.7 m147 in2018/194.3 m170 in2019/203.5 m137 in
- 2020s2020/213.3 m131 in2021/223.3 m131 in2022/233.3 m129 in2023/244.3 m167 in2024/252.1 m84 in2025/262.0 m80 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