Val d'Isère, 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 30% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -10°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
±0%
The trend: from 5.0 m195 in to 5.0 m195 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 15 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 174 to 167. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−4 days
The trend: from 173 to 169. 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−4%
Then
5.0 m197 in
Now
4.8 m190 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
3.8 m150 in
Now
3.3 m128 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
15
Now
14
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
173
Now
170
- Days with a base in the village−2 days
Then
173
Now
170
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-12°C11°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
- 1950s1950/515.6 m222 in1951/524.3 m169 in1952/533.8 m148 in1953/543.5 m138 in1954/556.0 m238 in1955/564.0 m158 in1956/573.5 m139 in1957/585.2 m204 in1958/595.2 m205 in1959/605.8 m228 in
- 1960s1960/614.6 m183 in1961/625.6 m221 in1962/636.1 m242 in1963/644.0 m159 in1964/653.0 m117 in1965/666.6 m260 in1966/674.7 m183 in1967/684.0 m159 in1968/695.6 m222 in1969/706.2 m242 in
- 1970s1970/714.5 m176 in1971/725.6 m219 in1972/733.6 m143 in1973/745.7 m223 in1974/754.8 m189 in1975/763.7 m144 in1976/776.6 m261 in1977/787.1 m280 in1978/795.4 m211 in1979/806.2 m244 in
- 1980s1980/815.2 m203 in1981/825.7 m224 in1982/836.5 m254 in1983/844.8 m189 in1984/854.2 m164 in1985/866.6 m261 in1986/874.7 m183 in1987/885.8 m226 in1988/894.3 m170 in1989/904.7 m185 in
- 1990s1990/914.5 m176 in1991/923.5 m137 in1992/934.4 m174 in1993/945.4 m212 in1994/956.9 m271 in1995/964.0 m156 in1996/975.0 m198 in1997/984.3 m170 in1998/994.8 m191 in1999/004.9 m194 in
- 2000s2000/015.7 m223 in2001/023.3 m131 in2002/034.2 m166 in2003/045.7 m224 in2004/053.5 m137 in2005/063.8 m150 in2006/073.6 m142 in2007/084.5 m175 in2008/096.7 m265 in2009/104.5 m176 in
- 2010s2010/113.6 m143 in2011/125.4 m211 in2012/135.6 m221 in2013/144.8 m189 in2014/155.3 m207 in2015/164.8 m188 in2016/174.7 m185 in2017/187.4 m292 in2018/195.1 m200 in2019/206.5 m255 in
- 2020s2020/213.6 m142 in2021/223.8 m148 in2022/233.8 m151 in2023/246.9 m270 in2024/255.2 m204 in2025/264.2 m165 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