Sörenberg, Switzerland. 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 70% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−16%
The trend: from 4.7 m187 in to 4.0 m157 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 14 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 159 to 145. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 77 to 66. 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−11%
Then
4.6 m180 in
Now
4.1 m161 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
2.7 m108 in
Now
2.3 m90 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
13
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
158
Now
151
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/515.6 m220 in1951/524.6 m183 in1952/534.5 m177 in1953/543.3 m129 in1954/554.5 m176 in1955/563.3 m128 in1956/572.6 m102 in1957/585.2 m204 in1958/593.6 m141 in1959/604.4 m174 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m155 in1961/624.7 m184 in1962/635.2 m205 in1963/642.8 m109 in1964/654.4 m172 in1965/666.1 m239 in1966/675.7 m224 in1967/685.4 m212 in1968/694.3 m169 in1969/707.3 m287 in
- 1970s1970/713.2 m127 in1971/723.8 m149 in1972/734.4 m173 in1973/744.2 m164 in1974/755.7 m225 in1975/763.2 m127 in1976/775.9 m231 in1977/785.8 m228 in1978/794.7 m183 in1979/805.5 m218 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m187 in1981/826.3 m246 in1982/835.1 m200 in1983/844.8 m189 in1984/854.0 m158 in1985/865.1 m202 in1986/874.8 m190 in1987/885.4 m213 in1988/894.2 m165 in1989/903.1 m121 in
- 1990s1990/913.7 m145 in1991/924.5 m176 in1992/933.1 m122 in1993/944.6 m181 in1994/955.4 m212 in1995/963.1 m120 in1996/974.1 m163 in1997/984.3 m168 in1998/996.1 m242 in1999/005.1 m202 in
- 2000s2000/015.6 m219 in2001/023.2 m124 in2002/034.0 m156 in2003/044.3 m169 in2004/053.5 m139 in2005/063.9 m152 in2006/073.1 m122 in2007/084.5 m178 in2008/094.7 m185 in2009/103.3 m130 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m106 in2011/125.0 m197 in2012/135.0 m196 in2013/144.1 m161 in2014/154.3 m168 in2015/164.4 m174 in2016/173.0 m118 in2017/184.8 m189 in2018/194.3 m169 in2019/204.0 m157 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m153 in2021/223.5 m138 in2022/232.8 m110 in2023/245.0 m198 in2024/253.3 m130 in2025/263.3 m128 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