Hakuba, 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 6% of 736 resorts
+1.0°C+1.9°F
The trend: from -6°C22°F to -5°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 4.9 m194 in to 4.9 m192 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 9 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 147 to 141. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−12 days
The trend: from 135 to 123. 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
4.9 m192 in
Now
4.9 m194 in
- Snowfall in the village+1%
Then
4.9 m194 in
Now
5.0 m196 in
- Powder days at the summit+2 days
Then
9
Now
11
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
145
Now
143
- Days with a base in the village−7 days
Then
132
Now
124
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+1.0°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-5°C24°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
- 1950s1950/515.1 m202 in1951/525.8 m228 in1952/535.3 m209 in1953/543.9 m155 in1954/555.2 m203 in1955/565.9 m234 in1956/575.4 m212 in1957/584.4 m172 in1958/593.9 m152 in1959/604.4 m174 in
- 1960s1960/614.3 m171 in1961/624.1 m161 in1962/634.4 m172 in1963/644.7 m184 in1964/655.8 m228 in1965/665.7 m225 in1966/674.8 m189 in1967/684.9 m191 in1968/694.8 m187 in1969/705.2 m206 in
- 1970s1970/714.5 m175 in1971/724.7 m183 in1972/734.8 m191 in1973/745.9 m232 in1974/755.5 m215 in1975/764.0 m159 in1976/775.4 m211 in1977/785.6 m220 in1978/793.8 m148 in1979/804.6 m180 in
- 1980s1980/815.7 m224 in1981/824.6 m179 in1982/834.8 m188 in1983/845.7 m225 in1984/854.6 m182 in1985/865.4 m212 in1986/874.8 m189 in1987/884.7 m185 in1988/894.7 m185 in1989/903.9 m152 in
- 1990s1990/914.7 m185 in1991/924.2 m164 in1992/935.0 m196 in1993/944.9 m193 in1994/954.8 m187 in1995/965.8 m228 in1996/974.3 m169 in1997/984.4 m174 in1998/994.7 m183 in1999/005.4 m213 in
- 2000s2000/016.0 m235 in2001/024.9 m193 in2002/036.0 m235 in2003/044.4 m172 in2004/055.0 m197 in2005/066.1 m238 in2006/073.5 m136 in2007/084.7 m185 in2008/094.9 m193 in2009/105.4 m214 in
- 2010s2010/115.1 m199 in2011/125.4 m211 in2012/135.7 m224 in2013/145.4 m212 in2014/156.1 m240 in2015/164.0 m159 in2016/175.2 m203 in2017/184.8 m188 in2018/195.1 m200 in2019/204.2 m164 in
- 2020s2020/214.3 m168 in2021/224.7 m184 in2022/234.0 m156 in2023/245.1 m202 in2024/255.3 m209 in2025/264.0 m157 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