76 winters, day by day
Pippu Ski Slopes, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pippu Ski Slopes, 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 63% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−3%
The trend: from 2.9 m114 in to 2.8 m111 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 147 to 131. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 91 to 87. 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−4%
Then
3.0 m116 in
Now
2.8 m112 in
- Snowfall in the village−4%
Then
3.0 m118 in
Now
2.9 m113 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
143
Now
136
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-7°C20°F
Now
-5°C22°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m107 in1951/522.4 m93 in1952/533.0 m120 in1953/543.0 m119 in1954/553.0 m119 in1955/563.2 m126 in1956/572.9 m113 in1957/583.3 m130 in1958/592.3 m92 in1959/603.3 m129 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m107 in1961/622.6 m104 in1962/632.2 m87 in1963/642.1 m83 in1964/653.5 m136 in1965/663.9 m152 in1966/672.6 m101 in1967/682.2 m85 in1968/692.5 m97 in1969/703.8 m150 in
- 1970s1970/712.8 m110 in1971/722.8 m111 in1972/733.9 m152 in1973/743.4 m132 in1974/753.6 m140 in1975/762.5 m96 in1976/773.2 m124 in1977/782.9 m113 in1978/793.2 m126 in1979/803.4 m132 in
- 1980s1980/812.3 m91 in1981/823.7 m144 in1982/832.0 m79 in1983/842.0 m80 in1984/852.7 m104 in1985/862.5 m98 in1986/873.5 m137 in1987/882.8 m110 in1988/892.7 m106 in1989/902.1 m81 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/922.5 m99 in1992/932.8 m111 in1993/943.4 m133 in1994/952.4 m95 in1995/963.3 m128 in1996/973.2 m124 in1997/981.9 m73 in1998/993.2 m125 in1999/002.8 m109 in
- 2000s2000/013.1 m122 in2001/022.1 m82 in2002/032.9 m112 in2003/042.9 m113 in2004/053.1 m122 in2005/062.9 m115 in2006/072.6 m103 in2007/082.2 m86 in2008/093.0 m117 in2009/103.5 m137 in
- 2010s2010/112.5 m96 in2011/122.9 m115 in2012/133.9 m153 in2013/142.8 m110 in2014/152.9 m114 in2015/163.0 m119 in2016/172.9 m114 in2017/183.6 m141 in2018/192.6 m101 in2019/202.6 m104 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m139 in2021/222.5 m97 in2022/232.7 m107 in2023/242.5 m99 in2024/252.2 m88 in2025/262.8 m109 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