76 winters, day by day
Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Kandatsu Kogen 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 14% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to 0°C31°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 4.8 m187 in to 4.7 m185 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 9 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 m185 in
Now
4.8 m187 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
-2°C29°F
Now
-1°C31°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
- 1950s1950/514.9 m192 in1951/525.8 m230 in1952/535.4 m211 in1953/544.3 m169 in1954/555.4 m211 in1955/565.8 m227 in1956/575.9 m230 in1957/583.8 m150 in1958/593.2 m125 in1959/604.3 m170 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m161 in1961/624.5 m176 in1962/634.0 m158 in1963/644.6 m179 in1964/655.4 m211 in1965/665.4 m211 in1966/674.7 m183 in1967/684.7 m185 in1968/694.1 m163 in1969/704.5 m178 in
- 1970s1970/714.9 m194 in1971/724.1 m163 in1972/734.3 m168 in1973/745.6 m220 in1974/755.4 m214 in1975/764.1 m163 in1976/774.4 m175 in1977/785.4 m212 in1978/793.7 m146 in1979/804.7 m184 in
- 1980s1980/815.3 m210 in1981/824.9 m191 in1982/834.4 m174 in1983/845.9 m232 in1984/854.3 m169 in1985/865.2 m206 in1986/875.0 m196 in1987/884.3 m169 in1988/894.3 m169 in1989/903.7 m146 in
- 1990s1990/914.6 m181 in1991/924.0 m157 in1992/934.8 m187 in1993/944.7 m187 in1994/954.9 m194 in1995/966.0 m235 in1996/974.1 m162 in1997/984.2 m164 in1998/994.6 m181 in1999/005.3 m209 in
- 2000s2000/015.7 m224 in2001/024.5 m177 in2002/035.6 m219 in2003/044.0 m159 in2004/055.6 m220 in2005/066.2 m245 in2006/073.4 m132 in2007/084.7 m186 in2008/094.3 m168 in2009/104.5 m176 in
- 2010s2010/114.8 m189 in2011/125.6 m220 in2012/135.4 m211 in2013/145.6 m219 in2014/155.7 m222 in2015/163.5 m136 in2016/175.7 m224 in2017/184.0 m159 in2018/195.1 m199 in2019/204.2 m164 in
- 2020s2020/213.9 m153 in2021/224.8 m189 in2022/234.0 m156 in2023/244.5 m178 in2024/255.4 m214 in2025/264.1 m162 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