76 winters, day by day
China Peak Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
China Peak Mountain Resort, United States. 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 16% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 5.6 m220 in to 5.2 m206 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 17 to 18. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−24 days
The trend: from 148 to 124. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−27 days
The trend: from 133 to 105. 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
5.6 m219 in
Now
5.3 m209 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
3.5 m138 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
18
Now
18
- Days with a base at the summit−12 days
Then
142
Now
130
- Days with a base in the village−14 days
Then
125
Now
111
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-3°C26°F
Now
-2°C28°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
- 1950s1950/515.0 m198 in1951/529.2 m362 in1952/535.2 m204 in1953/545.4 m212 in1954/554.7 m186 in1955/566.8 m267 in1956/573.8 m148 in1957/588.4 m331 in1958/594.3 m170 in1959/603.8 m148 in
- 1960s1960/613.4 m132 in1961/626.4 m250 in1962/635.1 m200 in1963/643.4 m133 in1964/656.1 m240 in1965/664.9 m193 in1966/678.5 m333 in1967/683.6 m143 in1968/6910.1 m399 in1969/704.4 m172 in
- 1970s1970/715.5 m215 in1971/723.7 m145 in1972/736.6 m259 in1973/746.4 m253 in1974/756.5 m255 in1975/762.3 m91 in1976/771.8 m70 in1977/7810.0 m394 in1978/795.2 m204 in1979/806.7 m264 in
- 1980s1980/814.3 m169 in1981/827.6 m298 in1982/839.5 m374 in1983/845.2 m206 in1984/854.4 m171 in1985/868.7 m343 in1986/872.9 m113 in1987/883.5 m139 in1988/894.0 m156 in1989/902.8 m109 in
- 1990s1990/914.5 m177 in1991/923.0 m118 in1992/937.5 m294 in1993/943.5 m138 in1994/958.7 m341 in1995/965.8 m227 in1996/975.5 m216 in1997/987.7 m302 in1998/994.9 m193 in1999/005.7 m225 in
- 2000s2000/013.7 m146 in2001/024.3 m169 in2002/034.7 m186 in2003/044.2 m166 in2004/056.9 m273 in2005/068.2 m322 in2006/073.1 m124 in2007/084.9 m193 in2008/094.9 m191 in2009/105.9 m231 in
- 2010s2010/118.2 m324 in2011/123.4 m133 in2012/133.4 m135 in2013/142.7 m108 in2014/152.0 m80 in2015/165.2 m204 in2016/1710.5 m412 in2017/184.2 m166 in2018/198.2 m322 in2019/203.7 m146 in
- 2020s2020/213.2 m126 in2021/223.5 m139 in2022/2311.2 m441 in2023/245.6 m220 in2024/254.9 m192 in2025/264.9 m192 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