Sahoro, 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 75% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.6°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−2%
The trend: from 2.5 m98 in to 2.4 m96 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 137 to 124. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 71 to 71. 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−3%
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.5 m97 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.5 m98 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
134
Now
129
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.5°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/512.6 m102 in1951/521.8 m71 in1952/532.3 m89 in1953/542.4 m96 in1954/552.4 m94 in1955/562.7 m106 in1956/572.2 m87 in1957/583.0 m117 in1958/592.2 m87 in1959/602.6 m103 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m85 in1961/621.8 m72 in1962/632.0 m78 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/652.9 m116 in1965/663.7 m146 in1966/671.8 m70 in1967/681.8 m71 in1968/692.3 m92 in1969/703.8 m149 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m96 in1971/723.3 m128 in1972/733.4 m133 in1973/742.4 m94 in1974/753.3 m130 in1975/762.2 m85 in1976/773.1 m121 in1977/782.7 m107 in1978/793.0 m117 in1979/802.8 m110 in
- 1980s1980/812.3 m92 in1981/823.0 m119 in1982/831.8 m72 in1983/841.8 m72 in1984/852.2 m85 in1985/862.3 m89 in1986/873.0 m119 in1987/882.3 m92 in1988/892.3 m91 in1989/901.9 m74 in
- 1990s1990/911.8 m72 in1991/921.8 m70 in1992/932.3 m92 in1993/943.0 m119 in1994/952.2 m85 in1995/962.5 m97 in1996/972.3 m90 in1997/981.6 m63 in1998/992.4 m95 in1999/002.9 m113 in
- 2000s2000/013.0 m118 in2001/022.2 m88 in2002/032.8 m109 in2003/042.8 m109 in2004/053.0 m119 in2005/062.8 m109 in2006/072.4 m94 in2007/081.7 m67 in2008/092.9 m114 in2009/103.2 m124 in
- 2010s2010/111.9 m75 in2011/122.6 m100 in2012/133.3 m130 in2013/142.3 m92 in2014/152.8 m108 in2015/162.5 m98 in2016/172.6 m104 in2017/182.9 m114 in2018/191.9 m75 in2019/202.3 m91 in
- 2020s2020/212.6 m101 in2021/222.0 m79 in2022/232.2 m85 in2023/242.1 m83 in2024/252.1 m83 in2025/262.4 m93 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