76 winters, day by day
Val Comelico - Padola, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Val Comelico - Padola, Italy. 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 69% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−16%
The trend: from 3.2 m125 in to 2.7 m105 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−29 days
The trend: from 165 to 136. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 61 to 49. 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−14%
Then
3.2 m126 in
Now
2.7 m108 in
- Snowfall in the village−30%
Then
1.5 m60 in
Now
1.1 m42 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−19 days
Then
159
Now
140
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-5°C22°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
- 1950s1950/516.4 m251 in1951/522.0 m80 in1952/531.8 m72 in1953/542.0 m80 in1954/552.5 m98 in1955/562.2 m86 in1956/572.3 m89 in1957/583.2 m125 in1958/592.8 m111 in1959/604.1 m159 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m100 in1961/623.9 m155 in1962/632.9 m113 in1963/642.3 m90 in1964/653.5 m136 in1965/662.6 m103 in1966/674.0 m156 in1967/683.3 m128 in1968/692.7 m106 in1969/703.5 m139 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m118 in1971/723.8 m148 in1972/732.6 m103 in1973/743.2 m127 in1974/754.2 m164 in1975/762.7 m105 in1976/774.7 m187 in1977/784.1 m161 in1978/794.0 m156 in1979/803.5 m139 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m85 in1981/822.2 m87 in1982/832.8 m109 in1983/843.0 m119 in1984/853.3 m130 in1985/864.0 m156 in1986/872.9 m116 in1987/882.9 m114 in1988/892.8 m109 in1989/902.5 m97 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m109 in1991/923.9 m153 in1992/932.3 m89 in1993/942.2 m88 in1994/952.3 m91 in1995/961.8 m70 in1996/972.0 m78 in1997/982.7 m106 in1998/992.6 m102 in1999/002.5 m97 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m179 in2001/022.0 m80 in2002/032.0 m80 in2003/043.0 m119 in2004/051.9 m76 in2005/062.5 m98 in2006/072.1 m83 in2007/082.7 m106 in2008/094.5 m178 in2009/103.1 m122 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m101 in2011/121.9 m74 in2012/133.0 m116 in2013/145.0 m195 in2014/151.9 m73 in2015/162.8 m109 in2016/171.7 m67 in2017/183.4 m132 in2018/192.9 m113 in2019/203.6 m142 in
- 2020s2020/214.2 m165 in2021/222.4 m93 in2022/232.3 m89 in2023/243.6 m140 in2024/251.7 m67 in2025/261.6 m62 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