76 winters, day by day
Pheonix Park, South Korea. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pheonix Park, 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 72% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -5°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 77 cm30 in to 57 cm22 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
−13 days
The trend: from 15 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 21 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 1950/51–1979/80Now 1996/97–2025/26
- Snowfall at the summit−22%
Then
72.967 cm29 in
Now
56.933 cm22 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
74 cm29 in
Now
57.767 cm23 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
12
Now
4
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.8°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/5189 cm35 in1951/5254 cm21 in1952/5332 cm13 in1953/5439 cm15 in1954/5535 cm14 in1955/5674 cm29 in1956/5773 cm29 in1957/581.0 m41 in1958/5970 cm28 in1959/6038 cm15 in
- 1960s1960/6181 cm32 in1961/6251 cm20 in1962/6392 cm36 in1963/6489 cm35 in1964/6572 cm28 in1965/6680 cm31 in1966/6761 cm24 in1967/6848 cm19 in1968/691.2 m47 in1969/7079 cm31 in
- 1970s1970/7181 cm32 in1971/721.1 m42 in1972/7380 cm31 in1973/7480 cm31 in1974/7583 cm33 in1975/7683 cm33 in1976/7763 cm25 in1977/7881 cm32 in1978/7991 cm36 in1979/8061 cm24 in
- 1980s1980/8174 cm29 in1981/8251 cm20 in1982/8391 cm36 in1983/8470 cm28 in1984/8570 cm28 in1985/8677 cm30 in1986/871.1 m43 in1987/8849 cm19 in1988/8980 cm31 in1989/9069 cm27 in
- 1990s1990/911.0 m40 in1991/9290 cm35 in1992/9384 cm33 in1993/9464 cm25 in1994/9545 cm18 in1995/9665 cm26 in1996/9739 cm15 in1997/9860 cm24 in1998/9935 cm14 in1999/0046 cm18 in
- 2000s2000/011.2 m48 in2001/0246 cm18 in2002/031.0 m41 in2003/0449 cm19 in2004/0576 cm30 in2005/0648 cm19 in2006/0738 cm15 in2007/0859 cm23 in2008/0949 cm19 in2009/1083 cm33 in
- 2010s2010/1156 cm22 in2011/1268 cm27 in2012/1388 cm35 in2013/1443 cm17 in2014/1551 cm20 in2015/1635 cm14 in2016/1741 cm16 in2017/1885 cm33 in2018/1949 cm19 in2019/2034 cm13 in
- 2020s2020/2133 cm13 in2021/2232 cm13 in2022/2330 cm12 in2023/2483 cm33 in2024/2573 cm29 in2025/2653 cm21 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