76 winters, day by day
Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Gala Yuzawa Snow 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 14% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.6°F
The trend: from -3°C26°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 4.7 m185 in to 4.7 m183 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 8 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 139 to 126. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−13 days
The trend: from 131 to 118. 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+1%
Then
4.7 m183 in
Now
4.7 m185 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
3.3 m131 in
Now
3.2 m126 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
9
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
135
Now
128
- Days with a base in the village−7 days
Then
126
Now
120
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/514.8 m190 in1951/525.7 m224 in1952/535.3 m209 in1953/544.3 m167 in1954/555.3 m208 in1955/565.7 m225 in1956/575.8 m230 in1957/583.7 m147 in1958/593.1 m121 in1959/604.3 m168 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m159 in1961/624.4 m174 in1962/634.0 m157 in1963/644.5 m178 in1964/655.3 m209 in1965/665.3 m209 in1966/674.6 m182 in1967/684.7 m183 in1968/694.1 m161 in1969/704.4 m174 in
- 1970s1970/714.9 m194 in1971/724.1 m161 in1972/734.2 m165 in1973/745.6 m220 in1974/755.4 m212 in1975/764.1 m161 in1976/774.4 m173 in1977/785.3 m210 in1978/793.6 m142 in1979/804.6 m181 in
- 1980s1980/815.3 m208 in1981/824.8 m190 in1982/834.4 m174 in1983/845.9 m231 in1984/854.2 m167 in1985/865.2 m204 in1986/875.0 m195 in1987/884.2 m167 in1988/894.2 m165 in1989/903.7 m144 in
- 1990s1990/914.5 m178 in1991/924.0 m156 in1992/934.7 m186 in1993/944.7 m186 in1994/954.9 m193 in1995/965.9 m234 in1996/974.0 m159 in1997/984.1 m162 in1998/994.6 m180 in1999/005.2 m206 in
- 2000s2000/015.6 m222 in2001/024.4 m174 in2002/035.5 m216 in2003/044.0 m156 in2004/055.5 m217 in2005/066.1 m242 in2006/073.3 m130 in2007/084.7 m185 in2008/094.2 m164 in2009/104.4 m172 in
- 2010s2010/114.7 m185 in2011/125.5 m217 in2012/135.3 m209 in2013/145.5 m218 in2014/155.6 m220 in2015/163.4 m135 in2016/175.6 m220 in2017/184.0 m157 in2018/195.0 m195 in2019/204.1 m161 in
- 2020s2020/213.8 m150 in2021/224.8 m189 in2022/233.9 m155 in2023/244.5 m176 in2024/255.4 m211 in2025/264.1 m161 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