76 winters, day by day
Palcall Tsumagoi Resort Ski & Hotel, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Palcall Tsumagoi Resort Ski & Hotel, 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 66% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 1.7 m67 in to 1.7 m67 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−20 days
The trend: from 89 to 69. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 49 to 49. 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+2%
Then
1.7 m66 in
Now
1.7 m67 in
- Snowfall in the village+2%
Then
1.6 m62 in
Now
1.6 m63 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
82
Now
72
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.6°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/511.8 m71 in1951/522.3 m90 in1952/531.7 m66 in1953/541.4 m55 in1954/552.0 m80 in1955/562.5 m99 in1956/571.5 m61 in1957/581.4 m57 in1958/591.5 m58 in1959/601.4 m54 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m52 in1961/621.2 m49 in1962/631.4 m57 in1963/641.7 m68 in1964/651.5 m57 in1965/661.7 m69 in1966/671.8 m69 in1967/681.5 m60 in1968/692.1 m82 in1969/701.4 m54 in
- 1970s1970/711.5 m58 in1971/722.0 m77 in1972/731.8 m72 in1973/741.9 m76 in1974/751.8 m71 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/771.6 m64 in1977/781.9 m75 in1978/791.4 m54 in1979/801.6 m63 in
- 1980s1980/811.9 m76 in1981/821.5 m57 in1982/831.6 m62 in1983/842.0 m79 in1984/851.9 m76 in1985/861.9 m73 in1986/871.7 m65 in1987/881.7 m69 in1988/891.6 m62 in1989/901.4 m56 in
- 1990s1990/911.7 m68 in1991/921.8 m70 in1992/931.8 m69 in1993/941.7 m68 in1994/951.7 m69 in1995/962.0 m80 in1996/971.3 m51 in1997/982.2 m87 in1998/991.5 m58 in1999/001.5 m59 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m81 in2001/021.5 m59 in2002/032.6 m102 in2003/041.3 m52 in2004/052.0 m79 in2005/061.9 m74 in2006/071.1 m44 in2007/081.7 m67 in2008/091.6 m65 in2009/102.3 m89 in
- 2010s2010/111.7 m66 in2011/121.9 m75 in2012/131.9 m76 in2013/142.3 m92 in2014/152.2 m85 in2015/161.5 m58 in2016/172.0 m77 in2017/181.4 m56 in2018/191.5 m60 in2019/201.7 m66 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m46 in2021/221.7 m65 in2022/231.1 m44 in2023/241.8 m70 in2024/251.8 m71 in2025/261.1 m41 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