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 1% of 736 resorts
+0.5°C+0.9°F
The trend: from -11°C11°F to -11°C12°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+9%
The trend: from 3.5 m138 in to 3.8 m151 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 8 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 168 to 173. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−2 days
The trend: from 168 to 166. 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+7%
Then
3.6 m140 in
Now
3.8 m150 in
- Snowfall in the village+3%
Then
3.0 m118 in
Now
3.1 m122 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
8
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit+2 days
Then
168
Now
170
- Days with a base in the village−1 day
Then
166
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+0.2°C+0.4°F
Then
-11°C12°F
Now
-11°C12°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
- 1950s1950/511.8 m71 in1951/523.4 m133 in1952/533.9 m153 in1953/544.3 m170 in1954/552.8 m111 in1955/564.8 m189 in1956/573.9 m152 in1957/584.6 m181 in1958/593.0 m118 in1959/603.3 m131 in
- 1960s1960/613.0 m117 in1961/623.3 m129 in1962/635.6 m220 in1963/643.7 m144 in1964/653.5 m139 in1965/663.3 m131 in1966/673.0 m116 in1967/685.4 m211 in1968/692.2 m88 in1969/704.0 m158 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m131 in1971/722.8 m109 in1972/732.9 m113 in1973/743.3 m130 in1974/753.7 m144 in1975/763.8 m148 in1976/772.4 m93 in1977/784.0 m157 in1978/794.6 m179 in1979/803.3 m128 in
- 1980s1980/813.7 m145 in1981/824.1 m163 in1982/833.0 m118 in1983/843.6 m143 in1984/852.9 m115 in1985/862.4 m93 in1986/876.5 m254 in1987/884.0 m157 in1988/894.1 m163 in1989/904.8 m189 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m112 in1991/922.8 m112 in1992/935.0 m195 in1993/942.5 m98 in1994/953.6 m142 in1995/963.1 m124 in1996/974.4 m172 in1997/983.0 m119 in1998/993.7 m145 in1999/003.4 m135 in
- 2000s2000/012.9 m112 in2001/024.5 m176 in2002/033.4 m132 in2003/043.7 m145 in2004/054.8 m189 in2005/064.2 m165 in2006/074.0 m158 in2007/084.5 m176 in2008/093.5 m137 in2009/105.4 m214 in
- 2010s2010/113.3 m129 in2011/123.0 m117 in2012/133.6 m143 in2013/143.3 m129 in2014/153.9 m152 in2015/164.1 m161 in2016/173.1 m122 in2017/184.3 m169 in2018/193.2 m126 in2019/202.8 m112 in
- 2020s2020/214.7 m184 in2021/224.0 m156 in2022/233.4 m132 in2023/244.4 m172 in2024/253.7 m145 in2025/264.2 m163 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





