SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Sulden, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Sulden
Average winter
2.8 m109 in
Snowiest winter
5.0 m196 in
Leanest winter
1.4 m56 in
Powder days a winter
6

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 49% of 736 resorts

+2.1°C+3.8°F

The trend: from -14°C6°F to -12°C10°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-16°3°-14°7°-12°10°-10°14°

Snowfall at the summit

−6%

The trend: from 2.9 m113 in to 2.7 m106 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 6 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.

051015

Days with a base at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 173 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.

140160180

Days with a base in the village

−11 days

The trend: from 170 to 159. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

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−4%

Then

2.9 m114 in

Now

2.8 m109 in

Snowfall in the village−10%

Then

2.3 m89 in

Now

2.0 m79 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

6

Now

6

Days with a base at the summit−5 days

Then

173

Now

168

Days with a base in the village−6 days

Then

169

Now

163

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F

Then

-14°C7°F

Now

-13°C9°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

Most snow in a day
55 cm22 in
Snowiest winter
5.0 m196 in
Leanest winter
1.4 m56 in
Deepest snow on the ground
268 cm106 in
Coldest night at the summit
-44°C-48°F
Strongest gust at the summit
134 km/h83 mph

All winters

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