76 winters, day by day
Furano ski resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Furano ski resort, Japan. 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 38% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -10°C15°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−2%
The trend: from 3.0 m118 in to 2.9 m116 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 146 to 136. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 91 to 87. 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−3%
Then
3.1 m121 in
Now
3.0 m117 in
- Snowfall in the village−4%
Then
2.3 m90 in
Now
2.2 m86 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
143
Now
139
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-9°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
- 1950s1950/513.0 m119 in1951/522.4 m93 in1952/532.7 m106 in1953/543.1 m122 in1954/553.1 m122 in1955/563.1 m122 in1956/572.9 m114 in1957/583.3 m128 in1958/592.6 m102 in1959/603.2 m126 in
- 1960s1960/612.8 m111 in1961/622.3 m92 in1962/632.2 m87 in1963/642.4 m94 in1964/653.8 m150 in1965/664.3 m167 in1966/672.3 m92 in1967/682.5 m97 in1968/692.6 m102 in1969/704.3 m171 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m114 in1971/723.5 m139 in1972/733.9 m152 in1973/743.1 m122 in1974/753.8 m148 in1975/762.8 m109 in1976/773.4 m133 in1977/783.2 m124 in1978/793.3 m128 in1979/803.3 m129 in
- 1980s1980/812.6 m104 in1981/823.6 m141 in1982/832.2 m86 in1983/842.3 m90 in1984/852.6 m104 in1985/862.9 m113 in1986/873.7 m147 in1987/882.9 m115 in1988/892.8 m110 in1989/902.2 m85 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/922.3 m92 in1992/933.0 m118 in1993/943.6 m140 in1994/952.6 m103 in1995/963.5 m137 in1996/973.0 m117 in1997/981.9 m76 in1998/993.1 m123 in1999/003.4 m132 in
- 2000s2000/013.6 m140 in2001/022.5 m98 in2002/033.0 m117 in2003/043.2 m124 in2004/053.4 m135 in2005/063.3 m130 in2006/072.9 m115 in2007/082.2 m87 in2008/093.5 m136 in2009/103.4 m134 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m102 in2011/123.0 m117 in2012/133.9 m154 in2013/142.8 m111 in2014/153.0 m118 in2015/162.9 m116 in2016/173.1 m120 in2017/183.3 m131 in2018/192.6 m102 in2019/202.7 m106 in
- 2020s2020/213.2 m128 in2021/222.6 m104 in2022/232.5 m99 in2023/242.6 m102 in2024/252.7 m107 in2025/263.0 m119 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