76 winters, day by day
Sogndal skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sogndal 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 96% of 736 resorts
+3.3°C+5.9°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+23%
The trend: from 4.9 m192 in to 6.0 m236 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+5 days
The trend: from 13 to 18. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 180 to 173. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+11 days
The trend: from 82 to 93. 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+16%
Then
4.8 m191 in
Now
5.6 m221 in
- Snowfall in the village+4%
Then
3.8 m148 in
Now
3.9 m153 in
- Powder days at the summit+3 days
Then
13
Now
17
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
178
Now
174
- Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.7°F
Then
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/512.6 m102 in1951/526.0 m235 in1952/534.9 m194 in1953/544.8 m189 in1954/554.7 m185 in1955/564.1 m162 in1956/576.3 m250 in1957/585.2 m203 in1958/593.7 m145 in1959/602.7 m107 in
- 1960s1960/615.2 m203 in1961/625.4 m211 in1962/632.8 m109 in1963/643.9 m155 in1964/655.5 m217 in1965/663.0 m119 in1966/676.7 m263 in1967/686.5 m256 in1968/693.2 m125 in1969/703.0 m118 in
- 1970s1970/715.0 m197 in1971/725.1 m202 in1972/737.4 m292 in1973/745.7 m226 in1974/756.2 m246 in1975/769.2 m364 in1976/772.8 m112 in1977/784.1 m161 in1978/795.4 m211 in1979/804.3 m167 in
- 1980s1980/817.4 m291 in1981/824.7 m183 in1982/838.2 m322 in1983/845.9 m230 in1984/854.3 m168 in1985/863.6 m143 in1986/875.8 m228 in1987/883.9 m154 in1988/899.7 m381 in1989/9010.1 m396 in
- 1990s1990/913.9 m155 in1991/927.9 m311 in1992/938.9 m352 in1993/945.4 m211 in1994/957.2 m283 in1995/962.2 m87 in1996/977.6 m301 in1997/985.2 m205 in1998/995.9 m234 in1999/008.4 m331 in
- 2000s2000/012.7 m107 in2001/026.4 m252 in2002/033.7 m147 in2003/044.5 m176 in2004/057.7 m303 in2005/063.8 m149 in2006/078.2 m322 in2007/086.4 m253 in2008/095.4 m213 in2009/103.0 m116 in
- 2010s2010/115.5 m216 in2011/127.2 m284 in2012/133.8 m151 in2013/146.3 m247 in2014/157.4 m291 in2015/166.5 m254 in2016/176.7 m264 in2017/185.1 m200 in2018/193.9 m154 in2019/208.6 m340 in
- 2020s2020/214.1 m159 in2021/226.4 m253 in2022/234.3 m170 in2023/245.1 m200 in2024/255.4 m211 in2025/263.5 m139 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