76 winters, day by day
Mount Dobson Ski Field, New Zealand. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
Mount Dobson Ski Field, New Zealand. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 19% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.8°F
The trend: from -6°C22°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+21%
The trend: from 66 cm26 in to 81 cm32 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 37 to 27. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 17 to 16. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit+4%
Then
69.833 cm27 in
Now
72.867 cm29 in
- Snowfall in the village+6%
Then
68.867 cm27 in
Now
72.867 cm29 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
35
Now
26
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-5°C22°F
Now
-5°C24°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
- 1950s195038 cm15 in195128 cm11 in195246 cm18 in195339 cm15 in19541.0 m41 in195564 cm25 in195641 cm16 in195771 cm28 in195848 cm19 in195939 cm15 in
- 1960s196058 cm23 in196191 cm36 in196243 cm17 in19631.2 m47 in196443 cm17 in196587 cm34 in196655 cm22 in196729 cm11 in196895 cm37 in196926 cm10 in
- 1970s197057 cm22 in197172 cm28 in197253 cm21 in19731.1 m44 in19741.2 m48 in19751.2 m47 in197672 cm28 in19771.1 m42 in19781.5 m61 in197965 cm26 in
- 1980s198027 cm11 in198190 cm35 in198269 cm27 in19831.0 m39 in198430 cm12 in198573 cm29 in19861.6 m62 in198766 cm26 in198834 cm13 in198960 cm24 in
- 1990s199050 cm20 in199159 cm23 in19921.6 m63 in199362 cm24 in199496 cm38 in19951.8 m70 in199690 cm35 in199756 cm22 in199854 cm21 in199973 cm29 in
- 2000s200099 cm39 in200162 cm24 in200261 cm24 in20031.1 m42 in200474 cm29 in200529 cm11 in20061.2 m46 in200769 cm27 in20081.2 m47 in200965 cm26 in
- 2010s201075 cm30 in201184 cm33 in20121.0 m40 in20131.1 m41 in201423 cm9 in201584 cm33 in201648 cm19 in20171.0 m41 in201832 cm13 in201959 cm23 in
- 2020s202043 cm17 in202137 cm15 in20221.1 m42 in202351 cm20 in202490 cm35 in202570 cm28 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