76 winters, day by day
Tufandag Mountain, Azerbaijan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Tufandag Mountain, Azerbaijan. 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 8% of 736 resorts
+1.2°C+2.1°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 1.5 m59 in to 1.3 m51 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 85 to 74. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−30 days
The trend: from 72 to 41. 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−8%
Then
1.4 m57 in
Now
1.3 m53 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
79.133 cm31 in
Now
63.633 cm25 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
77
Now
72
- Days with a base in the village−17 days
Then
60
Now
43
- Average temperature at the summit+0.7°C+1.3°F
Then
-2°C29°F
Now
-1°C30°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
- 1950s1950/511.2 m46 in1951/521.5 m61 in1952/531.6 m62 in1953/542.1 m81 in1954/551.3 m50 in1955/561.8 m72 in1956/571.4 m56 in1957/5895 cm37 in1958/591.7 m65 in1959/601.8 m70 in
- 1960s1960/611.0 m41 in1961/621.2 m48 in1962/631.3 m50 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/651.1 m43 in1965/661.1 m44 in1966/671.6 m61 in1967/681.3 m51 in1968/691.6 m61 in1969/701.1 m45 in
- 1970s1970/711.2 m46 in1971/721.6 m63 in1972/731.9 m74 in1973/741.9 m75 in1974/751.4 m56 in1975/761.6 m63 in1976/771.1 m44 in1977/781.2 m47 in1978/791.8 m70 in1979/801.4 m57 in
- 1980s1980/811.0 m39 in1981/821.7 m66 in1982/831.3 m50 in1983/841.3 m52 in1984/851.4 m56 in1985/861.3 m52 in1986/871.4 m56 in1987/881.4 m55 in1988/891.3 m49 in1989/901.8 m70 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m57 in1991/921.5 m59 in1992/931.8 m72 in1993/941.5 m61 in1994/951.3 m51 in1995/961.0 m40 in1996/971.5 m57 in1997/981.4 m55 in1998/9995 cm37 in1999/001.0 m41 in
- 2000s2000/011.1 m44 in2001/021.4 m54 in2002/031.9 m74 in2003/041.9 m75 in2004/051.5 m59 in2005/061.0 m39 in2006/071.8 m72 in2007/081.0 m40 in2008/091.7 m67 in2009/101.4 m56 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m52 in2011/121.8 m70 in2012/131.1 m43 in2013/141.1 m43 in2014/151.6 m62 in2015/161.8 m69 in2016/171.3 m50 in2017/181.3 m53 in2018/191.2 m48 in2019/201.2 m48 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m48 in2021/221.1 m42 in2022/2385 cm33 in2023/241.1 m44 in2024/251.2 m46 in2025/261.5 m59 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