76 winters, day by day
Sogn skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sogn skisenter, Norway. 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 98% of 736 resorts
+3.5°C+6.3°F
The trend: from -10°C15°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+21%
The trend: from 3.8 m150 in to 4.6 m182 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 8 to 12. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 178 to 169. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+9 days
The trend: from 77 to 86. 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+15%
Then
3.8 m148 in
Now
4.3 m170 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
2.5 m98 in
Now
2.4 m95 in
- Powder days at the summit+2 days
Then
8
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
175
Now
170
- Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+4.0°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m78 in1951/524.7 m183 in1952/533.9 m152 in1953/543.6 m143 in1954/553.7 m144 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/575.0 m196 in1957/584.1 m161 in1958/592.9 m114 in1959/602.1 m82 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m155 in1961/624.1 m161 in1962/632.2 m85 in1963/643.0 m119 in1964/654.2 m167 in1965/662.3 m92 in1966/675.3 m209 in1967/685.1 m202 in1968/692.4 m93 in1969/702.3 m89 in
- 1970s1970/713.8 m150 in1971/724.1 m160 in1972/735.4 m214 in1973/744.6 m181 in1974/754.7 m183 in1975/767.7 m301 in1976/772.2 m88 in1977/783.1 m124 in1978/794.1 m162 in1979/803.3 m130 in
- 1980s1980/815.9 m233 in1981/823.6 m141 in1982/836.4 m252 in1983/844.7 m185 in1984/853.3 m130 in1985/862.8 m112 in1986/874.3 m169 in1987/883.0 m117 in1988/897.6 m299 in1989/907.7 m303 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m115 in1991/926.3 m248 in1992/937.1 m279 in1993/944.1 m162 in1994/955.7 m224 in1995/961.8 m70 in1996/976.0 m235 in1997/984.2 m165 in1998/994.5 m177 in1999/006.5 m256 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m82 in2001/025.1 m202 in2002/032.9 m113 in2003/043.4 m132 in2004/056.0 m235 in2005/063.0 m117 in2006/076.1 m241 in2007/085.1 m199 in2008/094.2 m166 in2009/102.3 m90 in
- 2010s2010/114.2 m164 in2011/125.6 m222 in2012/132.8 m112 in2013/144.7 m184 in2014/155.5 m216 in2015/164.8 m189 in2016/175.2 m206 in2017/184.0 m156 in2018/193.1 m122 in2019/206.7 m262 in
- 2020s2020/213.0 m119 in2021/225.0 m197 in2022/233.4 m135 in2023/244.0 m156 in2024/254.1 m163 in2025/262.5 m99 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