76 winters, day by day
Miyagi Zao Eboshi Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Miyagi Zao Eboshi 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 34% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 1.5 m59 in to 1.3 m52 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−19 days
The trend: from 64 to 45. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 44 to 39. 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−6%
Then
1.4 m57 in
Now
1.4 m54 in
- Snowfall in the village−6%
Then
1.4 m57 in
Now
1.4 m54 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
59
Now
52
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-5°C24°F
Now
-4°C26°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
- 1950s1950/511.5 m57 in1951/521.6 m64 in1952/531.5 m59 in1953/541.1 m42 in1954/551.4 m53 in1955/562.6 m104 in1956/571.8 m70 in1957/581.2 m46 in1958/5980 cm31 in1959/601.2 m47 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m62 in1961/621.4 m54 in1962/631.2 m47 in1963/641.8 m72 in1964/651.3 m52 in1965/661.4 m55 in1966/671.4 m56 in1967/681.2 m49 in1968/692.0 m78 in1969/701.4 m54 in
- 1970s1970/711.1 m44 in1971/721.1 m44 in1972/731.2 m45 in1973/742.0 m80 in1974/751.9 m74 in1975/761.2 m49 in1976/771.7 m65 in1977/781.7 m67 in1978/7995 cm37 in1979/801.3 m51 in
- 1980s1980/811.8 m71 in1981/8292 cm36 in1982/831.7 m68 in1983/841.9 m76 in1984/851.6 m61 in1985/862.0 m78 in1986/871.5 m61 in1987/881.4 m56 in1988/891.3 m50 in1989/9071 cm28 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m43 in1991/921.5 m61 in1992/931.5 m57 in1993/941.0 m40 in1994/951.3 m50 in1995/961.4 m54 in1996/971.2 m46 in1997/981.8 m70 in1998/991.2 m48 in1999/001.2 m46 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m78 in2001/021.0 m41 in2002/031.6 m61 in2003/041.0 m41 in2004/051.9 m74 in2005/061.5 m58 in2006/0771 cm28 in2007/081.0 m39 in2008/091.3 m52 in2009/101.7 m66 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m59 in2011/121.8 m71 in2012/131.5 m61 in2013/142.2 m85 in2014/151.5 m61 in2015/161.2 m46 in2016/171.4 m56 in2017/181.3 m50 in2018/191.3 m51 in2019/201.0 m41 in
- 2020s2020/211.0 m41 in2021/221.4 m55 in2022/231.0 m41 in2023/241.5 m59 in2024/251.3 m50 in2025/2695 cm37 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