Valle Hermoso, Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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
+0.3°C+0.6°F
The trend: from -3°C27°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−4%
The trend: from 4.2 m165 in to 4.0 m159 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 16 to 15. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 140 to 130. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−2 days
The trend: from 75 to 72. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit−3%
Then
4.1 m163 in
Now
4.0 m158 in
- Snowfall in the village−9%
Then
4.4 m173 in
Now
4.0 m158 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
16
Now
15
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
139
Now
132
- Days with a base in the village−3 days
Then
74
Now
71
- Average temperature at the summit+0.3°C+0.5°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s19504.3 m167 in19514.4 m172 in19522.0 m80 in19533.9 m154 in19545.6 m222 in19552.4 m95 in19564.8 m187 in19574.9 m192 in19584.0 m156 in19593.9 m154 in
- 1960s19603.4 m135 in19615.2 m203 in19622.7 m105 in19635.3 m207 in19644.4 m174 in19654.5 m177 in19665.7 m223 in19673.4 m135 in19681.7 m67 in19694.5 m178 in
- 1970s19703.3 m129 in19713.4 m133 in19725.0 m195 in19734.4 m172 in19744.4 m173 in19755.1 m200 in19763.6 m143 in19776.1 m241 in19784.4 m174 in19793.9 m154 in
- 1980s19803.7 m144 in19812.8 m109 in19827.4 m290 in19834.7 m185 in19846.3 m248 in19852.6 m104 in19863.1 m123 in19874.1 m161 in19885.1 m201 in19894.7 m185 in
- 1990s19902.5 m98 in19913.8 m149 in19924.2 m163 in19933.7 m146 in19943.7 m146 in19955.8 m228 in19962.0 m77 in19974.5 m177 in19981.8 m71 in19995.2 m206 in
- 2000s20006.0 m235 in20014.4 m171 in20025.5 m217 in20033.1 m123 in20043.9 m155 in20054.6 m181 in20065.3 m209 in20074.4 m174 in20083.6 m141 in20093.9 m155 in
- 2010s20104.4 m172 in20115.5 m217 in20122.1 m84 in20133.3 m131 in20144.9 m192 in20154.5 m178 in20162.2 m85 in20175.7 m225 in20183.4 m133 in20193.5 m137 in
- 2020s20204.7 m185 in20212.6 m102 in20224.5 m179 in20234.3 m169 in20243.8 m150 in20252.9 m115 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