Muju, South Korea. 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 45% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 47 cm19 in to 34 cm13 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 13 to 10. 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−18%
Then
42.8 cm17 in
Now
35.133 cm14 in
- Snowfall in the village−16%
Then
35.6 cm14 in
Now
29.9 cm12 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/5153 cm21 in1951/5232 cm13 in1952/5328 cm11 in1953/5419 cm7 in1954/5518 cm7 in1955/5622 cm9 in1956/5762 cm24 in1957/5868 cm27 in1958/5927 cm11 in1959/6031 cm12 in
- 1960s1960/6158 cm23 in1961/6229 cm11 in1962/6363 cm25 in1963/6462 cm24 in1964/6541 cm16 in1965/6630 cm12 in1966/6751 cm20 in1967/6836 cm14 in1968/6986 cm34 in1969/7043 cm17 in
- 1970s1970/7153 cm21 in1971/7235 cm14 in1972/7353 cm21 in1973/7451 cm20 in1974/7551 cm20 in1975/7635 cm14 in1976/7725 cm10 in1977/7836 cm14 in1978/7933 cm13 in1979/8053 cm21 in
- 1980s1980/8183 cm33 in1981/8224 cm9 in1982/8350 cm20 in1983/8447 cm19 in1984/8558 cm23 in1985/8662 cm24 in1986/8746 cm18 in1987/8831 cm12 in1988/8966 cm26 in1989/9047 cm19 in
- 1990s1990/9153 cm21 in1991/9268 cm27 in1992/9322 cm9 in1993/9448 cm19 in1994/9525 cm10 in1995/9626 cm10 in1996/9723 cm9 in1997/9857 cm22 in1998/9935 cm14 in1999/0025 cm10 in
- 2000s2000/0175 cm30 in2001/0248 cm19 in2002/0365 cm26 in2003/0428 cm11 in2004/0533 cm13 in2005/0633 cm13 in2006/0716 cm6 in2007/0837 cm15 in2008/0919 cm7 in2009/1052 cm20 in
- 2010s2010/1128 cm11 in2011/1230 cm12 in2012/1358 cm23 in2013/1436 cm14 in2014/1528 cm11 in2015/1629 cm11 in2016/1724 cm9 in2017/1859 cm23 in2018/1924 cm9 in2019/2019 cm7 in
- 2020s2020/2115 cm6 in2021/2213 cm5 in2022/2322 cm9 in2023/2451 cm20 in2024/2548 cm19 in2025/2624 cm9 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