Vrátna, Slovakia. 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 94% of 736 resorts
+3.1°C+5.6°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−22%
The trend: from 1.9 m75 in to 1.5 m59 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−70 days
The trend: from 99 to 29. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 51 to 41. 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−15%
Then
1.8 m72 in
Now
1.6 m61 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−44 days
Then
86
Now
42
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.3°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/511.6 m63 in1951/522.7 m106 in1952/531.7 m67 in1953/541.0 m41 in1954/552.3 m90 in1955/562.1 m82 in1956/571.5 m58 in1957/582.2 m85 in1958/591.0 m39 in1959/601.5 m58 in
- 1960s1960/611.1 m45 in1961/622.4 m93 in1962/631.7 m65 in1963/641.2 m47 in1964/651.7 m69 in1965/661.7 m67 in1966/673.0 m120 in1967/682.2 m85 in1968/691.3 m51 in1969/702.1 m83 in
- 1970s1970/711.6 m63 in1971/721.1 m44 in1972/731.8 m72 in1973/741.9 m76 in1974/752.2 m85 in1975/762.7 m108 in1976/772.2 m87 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/791.6 m63 in1979/801.8 m71 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m66 in1981/822.3 m90 in1982/832.2 m88 in1983/841.4 m55 in1984/851.6 m65 in1985/861.8 m72 in1986/872.2 m86 in1987/881.7 m67 in1988/891.8 m70 in1989/901.3 m51 in
- 1990s1990/9196 cm38 in1991/922.0 m80 in1992/931.7 m66 in1993/941.8 m71 in1994/951.7 m67 in1995/961.9 m74 in1996/971.3 m50 in1997/981.2 m46 in1998/991.8 m69 in1999/002.5 m98 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m49 in2001/021.7 m67 in2002/031.2 m49 in2003/041.9 m73 in2004/052.3 m90 in2005/062.4 m93 in2006/071.8 m69 in2007/081.6 m65 in2008/092.1 m81 in2009/101.0 m41 in
- 2010s2010/111.1 m41 in2011/122.0 m80 in2012/131.9 m74 in2013/1478 cm31 in2014/151.5 m59 in2015/161.2 m46 in2016/171.6 m61 in2017/181.4 m54 in2018/192.0 m77 in2019/201.2 m45 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m58 in2021/221.7 m68 in2022/231.6 m62 in2023/241.7 m66 in2024/2588 cm35 in2025/261.0 m39 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