76 winters, day by day
Manning Park Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Manning Park 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 15% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−25%
The trend: from 6.3 m246 in to 4.7 m184 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 18 to 11. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 171 to 169. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 96 to 86. 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−16%
Then
6.1 m239 in
Now
5.1 m201 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
4.2 m166 in
Now
3.3 m130 in
- Powder days at the summit−4 days
Then
17
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
170
Now
169
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s1950/516.7 m263 in1951/524.8 m190 in1952/536.1 m241 in1953/548.9 m350 in1954/555.4 m212 in1955/566.8 m266 in1956/575.7 m225 in1957/585.8 m227 in1958/597.1 m280 in1959/605.8 m229 in
- 1960s1960/616.8 m269 in1961/625.0 m198 in1962/634.8 m188 in1963/647.0 m277 in1964/655.6 m221 in1965/665.6 m220 in1966/677.7 m302 in1967/686.6 m261 in1968/695.9 m234 in1969/705.0 m197 in
- 1970s1970/717.7 m301 in1971/728.4 m332 in1972/734.9 m193 in1973/747.8 m306 in1974/755.7 m222 in1975/767.4 m293 in1976/773.1 m124 in1977/785.1 m202 in1978/794.0 m157 in1979/804.7 m186 in
- 1980s1980/814.4 m174 in1981/826.0 m235 in1982/835.4 m213 in1983/844.6 m183 in1984/854.1 m162 in1985/864.1 m163 in1986/874.8 m187 in1987/885.2 m204 in1988/894.9 m192 in1989/905.2 m204 in
- 1990s1990/917.3 m289 in1991/924.4 m174 in1992/933.5 m137 in1993/944.3 m171 in1994/955.6 m219 in1995/966.3 m248 in1996/976.9 m271 in1997/983.9 m154 in1998/998.0 m314 in1999/004.9 m191 in
- 2000s2000/013.1 m123 in2001/026.3 m247 in2002/034.8 m190 in2003/044.5 m177 in2004/053.5 m139 in2005/065.1 m201 in2006/076.3 m249 in2007/084.9 m191 in2008/094.0 m158 in2009/104.7 m183 in
- 2010s2010/116.5 m257 in2011/126.2 m245 in2012/135.0 m197 in2013/145.6 m220 in2014/154.2 m164 in2015/166.1 m239 in2016/175.4 m212 in2017/186.1 m240 in2018/194.2 m164 in2019/205.3 m209 in
- 2020s2020/215.4 m214 in2021/225.3 m208 in2022/234.3 m169 in2023/243.5 m138 in2024/254.1 m161 in2025/265.2 m205 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