76 winters, day by day
Sudelfeld - Bayrischzell, Germany. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sudelfeld - Bayrischzell, Germany. 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 90% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.4°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−24%
The trend: from 2.6 m101 in to 2.0 m77 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−61 days
The trend: from 133 to 72. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 57 to 46. 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
2.4 m96 in
Now
2.0 m80 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.3 m52 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−35 days
Then
120
Now
85
- Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.1°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/512.5 m99 in1951/522.3 m92 in1952/532.6 m101 in1953/542.0 m79 in1954/552.3 m92 in1955/562.2 m86 in1956/571.4 m54 in1957/582.7 m105 in1958/591.4 m56 in1959/602.5 m98 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m63 in1961/622.5 m96 in1962/632.5 m100 in1963/641.4 m54 in1964/653.0 m118 in1965/662.4 m96 in1966/673.8 m150 in1967/682.7 m108 in1968/691.9 m76 in1969/703.8 m151 in
- 1970s1970/712.1 m84 in1971/721.5 m58 in1972/733.1 m123 in1973/742.8 m111 in1974/752.9 m115 in1975/762.0 m77 in1976/773.0 m118 in1977/782.7 m105 in1978/792.3 m89 in1979/803.4 m133 in
- 1980s1980/812.8 m111 in1981/823.7 m145 in1982/832.2 m87 in1983/842.3 m89 in1984/852.1 m82 in1985/862.5 m96 in1986/872.5 m97 in1987/882.7 m106 in1988/892.1 m84 in1989/901.5 m59 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m59 in1991/922.6 m104 in1992/932.0 m77 in1993/942.1 m81 in1994/952.7 m107 in1995/962.1 m83 in1996/972.1 m81 in1997/981.9 m74 in1998/993.0 m116 in1999/003.3 m131 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m83 in2001/022.0 m78 in2002/031.7 m65 in2003/042.5 m97 in2004/052.4 m94 in2005/062.9 m113 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/082.3 m89 in2008/092.7 m106 in2009/101.6 m63 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m57 in2011/122.5 m100 in2012/132.5 m97 in2013/141.4 m54 in2014/152.0 m80 in2015/161.8 m71 in2016/171.6 m64 in2017/182.3 m89 in2018/193.0 m117 in2019/201.5 m59 in
- 2020s2020/211.9 m76 in2021/221.9 m73 in2022/231.5 m58 in2023/241.8 m72 in2024/251.1 m42 in2025/261.5 m58 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