76 winters, day by day
Zinal / Grimentz, Switzerland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Zinal / Grimentz, 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.
Loading the daily snowfall…
Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 69% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -12°C11°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−4%
The trend: from 4.3 m171 in to 4.2 m165 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 10 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 178 to 171. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 174 to 166. 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
4.3 m170 in
Now
4.1 m163 in
- Snowfall in the village−12%
Then
3.5 m140 in
Now
3.1 m122 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
10
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
176
Now
172
- Days with a base in the village−5 days
Then
172
Now
168
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-11°C12°F
Now
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/515.5 m215 in1951/524.3 m168 in1952/533.5 m138 in1953/542.9 m116 in1954/554.8 m188 in1955/563.4 m135 in1956/572.5 m99 in1957/584.8 m190 in1958/594.2 m164 in1959/604.5 m178 in
- 1960s1960/614.2 m163 in1961/624.8 m189 in1962/635.3 m210 in1963/643.5 m138 in1964/653.0 m116 in1965/665.5 m217 in1966/674.3 m167 in1967/683.9 m152 in1968/694.9 m191 in1969/705.5 m217 in
- 1970s1970/713.5 m138 in1971/724.5 m176 in1972/733.1 m123 in1973/744.1 m160 in1974/754.4 m173 in1975/763.1 m122 in1976/775.8 m228 in1977/785.8 m229 in1978/794.4 m173 in1979/805.5 m216 in
- 1980s1980/814.5 m178 in1981/824.7 m183 in1982/835.6 m219 in1983/844.2 m167 in1984/853.5 m138 in1985/866.0 m235 in1986/874.2 m164 in1987/885.0 m198 in1988/894.3 m170 in1989/904.1 m159 in
- 1990s1990/913.9 m154 in1991/923.7 m144 in1992/934.0 m157 in1993/944.3 m169 in1994/956.3 m250 in1995/962.7 m107 in1996/974.2 m167 in1997/983.8 m151 in1998/994.8 m189 in1999/004.3 m170 in
- 2000s2000/015.2 m204 in2001/023.0 m119 in2002/034.0 m157 in2003/044.4 m172 in2004/053.5 m138 in2005/063.3 m128 in2006/073.1 m123 in2007/084.0 m158 in2008/095.6 m221 in2009/103.3 m131 in
- 2010s2010/113.0 m117 in2011/124.7 m185 in2012/134.9 m191 in2013/144.7 m185 in2014/154.6 m181 in2015/163.8 m151 in2016/173.5 m137 in2017/185.7 m224 in2018/194.5 m179 in2019/205.0 m197 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m136 in2021/223.4 m132 in2022/233.2 m124 in2023/245.9 m231 in2024/254.1 m161 in2025/263.1 m123 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