SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Vail, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Vail
Painting of Vail
Average winter
2.7 m105 in
Snowiest winter
4.1 m162 in
1983/84
Leanest winter
1.6 m64 in
2011/12
Powder days a winter
2

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 39% of 736 resorts

+2.0°C+3.6°F

The trend: from -12°C11°F to -10°C14°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-12°10°-10°14°-8°18°

Snowfall at the summit

−8%

The trend: from 2.8 m109 in to 2.6 m101 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.

0246

Days with a base at the summit

−12 days

The trend: from 153 to 141. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

Days with a base in the village

−12 days

The trend: from 153 to 142. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

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−5%

Then

2.7 m106 in

Now

2.6 m101 in

Snowfall in the village−11%

Then

1.9 m73 in

Now

1.6 m65 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

2

Now

2

Days with a base at the summit−5 days

Then

148

Now

143

Days with a base in the village−5 days

Then

149

Now

144

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F

Then

-11°C11°F

Now

-10°C14°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
22 cm9 in
22 April 1999
Snowiest winter
4.1 m162 in
1983/84
Leanest winter
1.6 m64 in
2011/12
Deepest snow on the ground
180 cm71 in
30 April 1984
Coldest night at the summit
-41°C-43°F
13 January 1963
Strongest gust at the summit
131 km/h81 mph
10 January 1980

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