76 winters, day by day
Kicking Horse Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Kicking Horse Resort, Canada. 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 18% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.8°F
The trend: from -14°C8°F to -12°C10°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−20%
The trend: from 3.1 m121 in to 2.5 m97 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 169 to 172. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 78 to 68. 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−15%
Then
3.1 m121 in
Now
2.6 m104 in
- Snowfall in the village−23%
Then
2.5 m98 in
Now
1.9 m75 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
4
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
171
Now
171
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-13°C8°F
Now
-12°C10°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 in1951/522.3 m89 in1952/533.1 m122 in1953/544.8 m190 in1954/552.7 m106 in1955/563.2 m128 in1956/572.7 m108 in1957/582.8 m109 in1958/593.4 m132 in1959/602.6 m103 in
- 1960s1960/612.9 m114 in1961/622.7 m108 in1962/633.0 m117 in1963/643.3 m130 in1964/653.0 m118 in1965/663.5 m138 in1966/674.6 m179 in1967/683.4 m133 in1968/693.2 m124 in1969/702.2 m87 in
- 1970s1970/713.9 m152 in1971/724.3 m167 in1972/733.1 m120 in1973/743.6 m141 in1974/752.8 m110 in1975/763.3 m130 in1976/772.1 m81 in1977/782.4 m96 in1978/792.4 m93 in1979/802.4 m93 in
- 1980s1980/812.6 m103 in1981/822.9 m112 in1982/832.4 m95 in1983/842.1 m81 in1984/852.2 m87 in1985/861.9 m76 in1986/872.0 m80 in1987/882.3 m91 in1988/892.4 m94 in1989/902.9 m113 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m125 in1991/922.2 m85 in1992/931.8 m70 in1993/942.7 m105 in1994/952.6 m101 in1995/963.3 m131 in1996/973.1 m123 in1997/981.9 m75 in1998/993.5 m137 in1999/002.8 m109 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m65 in2001/022.7 m105 in2002/032.4 m94 in2003/042.0 m80 in2004/052.2 m87 in2005/062.2 m85 in2006/073.2 m126 in2007/082.4 m93 in2008/092.2 m87 in2009/102.1 m81 in
- 2010s2010/113.2 m127 in2011/123.2 m127 in2012/132.8 m111 in2013/143.1 m122 in2014/152.4 m95 in2015/162.3 m91 in2016/172.9 m113 in2017/183.1 m122 in2018/192.3 m90 in2019/203.0 m118 in
- 2020s2020/212.6 m101 in2021/223.3 m130 in2022/232.1 m84 in2023/242.6 m102 in2024/252.2 m88 in2025/263.6 m143 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