76 winters, day by day
ChangBaiShan International Resort (长白山), China. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
ChangBaiShan International Resort (长白山), China. 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 95% of 736 resorts
+3.2°C+5.8°F
The trend: from -13°C9°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−16%
The trend: from 1.5 m58 in to 1.2 m48 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−40 days
The trend: from 115 to 75. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 44 to 35. 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−13%
Then
1.4 m56 in
Now
1.2 m49 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
1.5 m57 in
Now
1.3 m50 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−28 days
Then
106
Now
78
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.5°F
Then
-12°C11°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
- 1950s1950/511.4 m56 in1951/521.3 m49 in1952/531.0 m40 in1953/541.3 m53 in1954/551.2 m47 in1955/561.2 m48 in1956/571.6 m62 in1957/581.3 m53 in1958/591.1 m43 in1959/601.7 m67 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m51 in1961/621.5 m59 in1962/631.2 m46 in1963/641.6 m62 in1964/651.9 m73 in1965/661.7 m66 in1966/671.4 m55 in1967/681.0 m41 in1968/691.6 m63 in1969/701.4 m54 in
- 1970s1970/711.2 m48 in1971/721.7 m67 in1972/732.0 m79 in1973/741.5 m57 in1974/751.2 m46 in1975/761.4 m54 in1976/771.3 m53 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/792.0 m78 in1979/801.3 m52 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m57 in1981/8298 cm39 in1982/831.3 m50 in1983/841.3 m53 in1984/851.4 m53 in1985/861.6 m62 in1986/871.9 m75 in1987/881.7 m65 in1988/891.1 m43 in1989/901.3 m50 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m56 in1991/921.3 m52 in1992/931.6 m61 in1993/941.4 m54 in1994/951.3 m51 in1995/961.3 m50 in1996/971.2 m46 in1997/9883 cm33 in1998/991.8 m69 in1999/001.4 m55 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m59 in2001/021.2 m46 in2002/031.1 m41 in2003/041.5 m59 in2004/051.3 m50 in2005/061.5 m57 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/0878 cm31 in2008/091.4 m54 in2009/101.5 m61 in
- 2010s2010/111.0 m39 in2011/121.0 m40 in2012/131.9 m75 in2013/141.2 m47 in2014/151.3 m52 in2015/161.4 m55 in2016/171.3 m53 in2017/181.3 m52 in2018/1976 cm30 in2019/201.6 m63 in
- 2020s2020/2175 cm30 in2021/221.3 m50 in2022/231.0 m40 in2023/241.1 m44 in2024/251.1 m44 in2025/261.1 m44 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