SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Hodaigi Ski Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Hodaigi Ski Resort
Painting of Hodaigi Ski Resort
Average winter
2.5 m98 in
Snowiest winter
3.5 m137 in
1955/56
Leanest winter
1.8 m69 in
2025/26
Powder days a winter
2

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 16% of 736 resorts

+1.5°C+2.7°F

The trend: from -3°C26°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-4°25°-2°28°0°32°

Snowfall at the summit

−2%

The trend: from 2.5 m99 in to 2.5 m96 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in2.5 m98 in3.0 m118 in3.5 m138 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.

024

Days with a base at the summit

−13 days

The trend: from 140 to 126. Point at a winter to read it.

100120140160

Days with a base in the village

−9 days

The trend: from 109 to 100. Point at a winter to read it.

6080100120140

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

2.5 m97 in

Now

2.5 m98 in

Snowfall in the village−2%

Then

1.6 m65 in

Now

1.6 m64 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

2

Now

2

Days with a base at the summit−7 days

Then

136

Now

128

Days with a base in the village−4 days

Then

105

Now

101

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

Most snow in a day
60 cm24 in
15 February 2014
Snowiest winter
3.5 m137 in
1955/56
Leanest winter
1.8 m69 in
2025/26
Deepest snow on the ground
221 cm87 in
16 February 2014
Coldest night at the summit
-20°C-4°F
25 January 1963
Strongest gust at the summit
131 km/h81 mph
22 February 1994

All winters

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