76 winters, day by day
Steinplatte Waidring-Tirol, Austria. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Steinplatte Waidring-Tirol, 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 86% of 736 resorts
+2.9°C+5.2°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−22%
The trend: from 2.8 m111 in to 2.2 m87 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−45 days
The trend: from 145 to 100. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 60 to 48. 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−14%
Then
2.7 m105 in
Now
2.3 m90 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
1.6 m62 in
Now
1.3 m49 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
4
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−26 days
Then
135
Now
110
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.0°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C22°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 in1951/522.6 m104 in1952/532.8 m110 in1953/542.2 m86 in1954/552.6 m100 in1955/562.4 m94 in1956/571.7 m65 in1957/582.9 m113 in1958/591.5 m60 in1959/602.8 m112 in
- 1960s1960/611.7 m69 in1961/622.7 m107 in1962/632.8 m108 in1963/641.4 m56 in1964/653.5 m137 in1965/662.7 m107 in1966/674.2 m166 in1967/682.9 m113 in1968/692.2 m85 in1969/704.0 m159 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m96 in1971/721.6 m63 in1972/733.3 m130 in1973/743.1 m122 in1974/753.3 m128 in1975/762.1 m84 in1976/773.2 m128 in1977/782.9 m115 in1978/792.5 m96 in1979/803.7 m144 in
- 1980s1980/813.2 m124 in1981/824.1 m161 in1982/832.5 m97 in1983/842.6 m101 in1984/852.4 m93 in1985/862.7 m106 in1986/872.9 m113 in1987/883.0 m119 in1988/892.5 m98 in1989/901.5 m58 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m64 in1991/923.0 m119 in1992/932.1 m83 in1993/942.3 m91 in1994/953.1 m121 in1995/962.3 m91 in1996/972.3 m89 in1997/982.2 m88 in1998/993.2 m124 in1999/003.7 m145 in
- 2000s2000/012.2 m88 in2001/022.3 m90 in2002/031.9 m74 in2003/042.8 m109 in2004/052.7 m106 in2005/063.3 m130 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/082.4 m96 in2008/093.2 m124 in2009/101.8 m71 in
- 2010s2010/111.7 m65 in2011/122.9 m113 in2012/132.7 m108 in2013/141.6 m62 in2014/152.2 m85 in2015/161.9 m74 in2016/171.8 m69 in2017/182.5 m100 in2018/193.5 m138 in2019/201.7 m66 in
- 2020s2020/212.2 m85 in2021/222.2 m88 in2022/231.7 m67 in2023/242.0 m78 in2024/251.2 m46 in2025/261.6 m62 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