76 winters, day by day
Nationales Ski-Alpin-Zentrum Xiaohaituo, China. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Nationales Ski-Alpin-Zentrum Xiaohaituo, China. 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 98% of 736 resorts
+3.5°C+6.3°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−41%
The trend: from 37 cm15 in to 22 cm9 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
+2 days
The trend: from 0 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
+2 days
The trend: from 0 to 1. 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−26%
Then
34.8 cm14 in
Now
25.633 cm10 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit+1 day
Then
0
Now
1
- Days with a base in the village+1 day
Then
0
Now
1
- Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+3.9°F
Then
-12°C11°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/5122 cm9 in1951/5256 cm22 in1952/5353 cm21 in1953/5450 cm20 in1954/5551 cm20 in1955/5639 cm15 in1956/5732 cm13 in1957/5845 cm18 in1958/5939 cm15 in1959/6026 cm10 in
- 1960s1960/6121 cm8 in1961/6245 cm18 in1962/6318 cm7 in1963/6442 cm17 in1964/6522 cm9 in1965/6630 cm12 in1966/6731 cm12 in1967/6819 cm7 in1968/6940 cm16 in1969/7027 cm11 in
- 1970s1970/7135 cm14 in1971/7244 cm17 in1972/7356 cm22 in1973/7416 cm6 in1974/7520 cm8 in1975/7623 cm9 in1976/7717 cm7 in1977/7826 cm10 in1978/7956 cm22 in1979/8043 cm17 in
- 1980s1980/8125 cm10 in1981/8237 cm15 in1982/8322 cm9 in1983/8410 cm4 in1984/8531 cm12 in1985/8632 cm13 in1986/8729 cm11 in1987/8832 cm13 in1988/899 cm4 in1989/9042 cm17 in
- 1990s1990/9135 cm14 in1991/9228 cm11 in1992/9335 cm14 in1993/9414 cm6 in1994/9518 cm7 in1995/9619 cm7 in1996/9713 cm5 in1997/9828 cm11 in1998/9917 cm7 in1999/0021 cm8 in
- 2000s2000/0127 cm11 in2001/0232 cm13 in2002/0345 cm18 in2003/0428 cm11 in2004/0526 cm10 in2005/069 cm4 in2006/0729 cm11 in2007/0819 cm7 in2008/0921 cm8 in2009/1056 cm22 in
- 2010s2010/1115 cm6 in2011/1218 cm7 in2012/1377 cm30 in2013/145 cm2 in2014/1512 cm5 in2015/1651 cm20 in2016/1733 cm13 in2017/1815 cm6 in2018/1918 cm7 in2019/2023 cm9 in
- 2020s2020/2124 cm9 in2021/2239 cm15 in2022/2313 cm5 in2023/2414 cm6 in2024/2522 cm9 in2025/2619 cm7 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