Super Besse, France. 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 54% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -3°C26°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−40%
The trend: from 1.3 m50 in to 75 cm30 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 11 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 37 to 23. 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−29%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
82.9 cm33 in
- Snowfall in the village−29%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
82.9 cm33 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
10
Now
2
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-2°C29°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m77 in1951/521.4 m56 in1952/531.5 m61 in1953/5496 cm38 in1954/5596 cm38 in1955/5655 cm22 in1956/5790 cm35 in1957/581.4 m56 in1958/5960 cm24 in1959/6072 cm28 in
- 1960s1960/6190 cm35 in1961/6278 cm31 in1962/631.3 m51 in1963/6442 cm17 in1964/651.4 m56 in1965/6685 cm33 in1966/671.2 m46 in1967/681.6 m62 in1968/691.2 m48 in1969/701.8 m72 in
- 1970s1970/711.5 m58 in1971/721.5 m58 in1972/731.1 m43 in1973/7493 cm37 in1974/751.1 m44 in1975/761.0 m40 in1976/771.0 m41 in1977/781.7 m67 in1978/791.3 m50 in1979/801.5 m59 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m68 in1981/821.1 m42 in1982/831.2 m46 in1983/841.0 m39 in1984/8584 cm33 in1985/861.4 m56 in1986/871.1 m44 in1987/881.3 m50 in1988/8986 cm34 in1989/9052 cm20 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m41 in1991/9274 cm29 in1992/9334 cm13 in1993/941.7 m68 in1994/9590 cm35 in1995/9679 cm31 in1996/9771 cm28 in1997/9873 cm29 in1998/991.3 m53 in1999/0094 cm37 in
- 2000s2000/0166 cm26 in2001/0243 cm17 in2002/0368 cm27 in2003/041.1 m45 in2004/051.0 m40 in2005/061.3 m52 in2006/0756 cm22 in2007/0874 cm29 in2008/091.1 m45 in2009/101.0 m41 in
- 2010s2010/1164 cm25 in2011/1271 cm28 in2012/131.2 m47 in2013/141.3 m51 in2014/1592 cm36 in2015/1689 cm35 in2016/1765 cm26 in2017/181.1 m44 in2018/1972 cm28 in2019/2037 cm15 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m45 in2021/2279 cm31 in2022/2348 cm19 in2023/2446 cm18 in2024/2554 cm21 in2025/2650 cm20 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