Verbier, Switzerland. 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 47% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.8°F
The trend: from -15°C5°F to -13°C9°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−4%
The trend: from 4.9 m192 in to 4.7 m185 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 14 to 15. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 182 to 180. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−8 days
The trend: from 171 to 163. 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
4.8 m189 in
Now
4.6 m182 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
13
Now
14
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
181
Now
181
- Days with a base in the village−6 days
Then
170
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-14°C6°F
Now
-13°C8°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
- 1950s1950/515.9 m233 in1951/524.8 m189 in1952/534.3 m169 in1953/543.1 m121 in1954/555.8 m228 in1955/563.7 m146 in1956/573.0 m118 in1957/585.3 m209 in1958/594.2 m167 in1959/604.8 m191 in
- 1960s1960/614.4 m174 in1961/625.5 m215 in1962/635.4 m211 in1963/643.1 m124 in1964/653.9 m153 in1965/667.0 m276 in1966/675.3 m208 in1967/684.5 m175 in1968/694.8 m191 in1969/706.9 m273 in
- 1970s1970/713.5 m136 in1971/724.0 m156 in1972/733.9 m155 in1973/744.2 m167 in1974/755.1 m199 in1975/763.0 m118 in1976/776.4 m252 in1977/786.5 m257 in1978/795.2 m203 in1979/806.8 m267 in
- 1980s1980/815.1 m202 in1981/826.1 m239 in1982/836.1 m241 in1983/845.2 m205 in1984/854.0 m159 in1985/865.9 m233 in1986/875.1 m200 in1987/886.0 m235 in1988/894.4 m174 in1989/904.7 m186 in
- 1990s1990/914.0 m157 in1991/924.3 m170 in1992/934.4 m172 in1993/945.3 m210 in1994/957.1 m280 in1995/963.1 m123 in1996/974.9 m194 in1997/984.1 m161 in1998/995.9 m231 in1999/005.0 m197 in
- 2000s2000/015.9 m233 in2001/023.7 m144 in2002/034.5 m176 in2003/044.6 m180 in2004/053.6 m141 in2005/064.0 m157 in2006/073.8 m150 in2007/084.9 m191 in2008/095.1 m199 in2009/103.9 m155 in
- 2010s2010/112.9 m114 in2011/125.0 m197 in2012/135.4 m213 in2013/144.6 m180 in2014/154.5 m178 in2015/164.9 m191 in2016/173.5 m137 in2017/186.4 m252 in2018/195.2 m204 in2019/205.8 m226 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m153 in2021/224.1 m161 in2022/234.3 m168 in2023/246.6 m260 in2024/254.2 m165 in2025/263.6 m141 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