76 winters, day by day
Apex Mountain Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Apex Mountain Resort, Canada. 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 55% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+3.9°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 3.0 m119 in to 2.2 m87 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 157 to 152. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 73 to 62. 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−18%
Then
2.9 m116 in
Now
2.4 m95 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
2.9 m116 in
Now
2.4 m95 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
4
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
156
Now
153
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.4°F
Then
-10°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/513.2 m126 in1951/522.7 m107 in1952/532.7 m107 in1953/543.9 m152 in1954/552.5 m97 in1955/563.3 m131 in1956/573.0 m117 in1957/582.9 m113 in1958/593.4 m135 in1959/602.9 m114 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m127 in1961/622.7 m105 in1962/632.3 m91 in1963/643.5 m137 in1964/652.8 m110 in1965/662.8 m111 in1966/673.6 m143 in1967/683.2 m125 in1968/693.0 m118 in1969/702.4 m95 in
- 1970s1970/713.6 m140 in1971/723.9 m154 in1972/732.4 m94 in1973/743.9 m152 in1974/752.9 m114 in1975/763.1 m123 in1976/771.4 m56 in1977/782.9 m113 in1978/791.9 m76 in1979/802.5 m97 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m85 in1981/822.7 m107 in1982/833.0 m117 in1983/842.3 m91 in1984/852.2 m85 in1985/862.0 m80 in1986/872.2 m87 in1987/882.1 m83 in1988/892.1 m83 in1989/902.0 m78 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m126 in1991/922.0 m80 in1992/932.0 m78 in1993/942.1 m81 in1994/952.9 m112 in1995/963.1 m122 in1996/973.2 m126 in1997/982.0 m78 in1998/993.6 m141 in1999/002.1 m81 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m67 in2001/022.5 m100 in2002/032.4 m94 in2003/042.2 m87 in2004/051.8 m71 in2005/062.5 m97 in2006/072.6 m100 in2007/082.2 m85 in2008/091.9 m76 in2009/102.1 m82 in
- 2010s2010/112.9 m116 in2011/122.7 m106 in2012/132.5 m99 in2013/142.6 m102 in2014/152.1 m81 in2015/162.8 m108 in2016/172.8 m110 in2017/183.4 m134 in2018/192.1 m81 in2019/202.4 m94 in
- 2020s2020/212.6 m100 in2021/222.4 m94 in2022/232.5 m100 in2023/242.1 m82 in2024/252.1 m83 in2025/261.9 m76 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