76 winters, day by day
Madarao Kogen Mountain Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Madarao Kogen Mountain 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 20% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.9°F
The trend: from -4°C24°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−2%
The trend: from 3.0 m117 in to 2.9 m115 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 2 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 137 to 123. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 77 to 72. 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
2.9 m115 in
Now
3.0 m116 in
- Snowfall in the village+1%
Then
2.9 m116 in
Now
3.0 m117 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
2
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
133
Now
125
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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 in1951/523.8 m150 in1952/533.2 m126 in1953/542.5 m98 in1954/553.3 m129 in1955/563.9 m154 in1956/573.4 m132 in1957/582.3 m92 in1958/592.1 m81 in1959/602.7 m108 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m101 in1961/622.5 m97 in1962/632.5 m100 in1963/642.9 m115 in1964/653.0 m118 in1965/663.2 m127 in1966/673.0 m118 in1967/682.9 m113 in1968/693.0 m117 in1969/702.8 m112 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m112 in1971/723.0 m117 in1972/732.7 m107 in1973/743.7 m146 in1974/753.2 m127 in1975/762.5 m99 in1976/773.0 m117 in1977/783.4 m132 in1978/792.1 m84 in1979/802.8 m111 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m129 in1981/822.8 m111 in1982/832.9 m116 in1983/843.7 m147 in1984/852.8 m110 in1985/863.3 m130 in1986/872.9 m115 in1987/882.8 m111 in1988/892.5 m97 in1989/902.3 m91 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m115 in1991/922.6 m104 in1992/933.0 m117 in1993/942.9 m115 in1994/953.1 m122 in1995/963.5 m139 in1996/972.4 m94 in1997/982.9 m115 in1998/992.9 m113 in1999/003.1 m120 in
- 2000s2000/013.7 m145 in2001/022.8 m112 in2002/033.8 m149 in2003/042.5 m97 in2004/053.4 m132 in2005/063.6 m140 in2006/071.9 m74 in2007/083.0 m116 in2008/092.8 m109 in2009/103.2 m125 in
- 2010s2010/113.0 m117 in2011/123.4 m134 in2012/133.3 m130 in2013/143.6 m143 in2014/153.6 m141 in2015/162.4 m94 in2016/173.2 m126 in2017/182.7 m107 in2018/193.1 m122 in2019/202.5 m98 in
- 2020s2020/212.4 m93 in2021/222.9 m115 in2022/232.4 m94 in2023/242.9 m115 in2024/253.3 m129 in2025/262.3 m89 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