76 winters, day by day
Songhua Lake Ski Resort, China. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Songhua Lake Ski Resort, 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 100% of 736 resorts
+3.7°C+6.6°F
The trend: from -13°C8°F to -9°C15°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−29%
The trend: from 74 cm29 in to 53 cm21 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
−17 days
The trend: from 36 to 18. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 23 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−18%
Then
69.733 cm27 in
Now
56.833 cm22 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
69.9 cm28 in
Now
56.833 cm22 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−15 days
Then
34
Now
19
- Average temperature at the summit+2.3°C+4.1°F
Then
-12°C10°F
Now
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/5166 cm26 in1951/5266 cm26 in1952/5337 cm15 in1953/5482 cm32 in1954/5578 cm31 in1955/5672 cm28 in1956/5779 cm31 in1957/5893 cm37 in1958/5942 cm17 in1959/6073 cm29 in
- 1960s1960/6172 cm28 in1961/6273 cm29 in1962/6334 cm13 in1963/6464 cm25 in1964/6593 cm37 in1965/6692 cm36 in1966/6753 cm21 in1967/6872 cm28 in1968/6990 cm35 in1969/7072 cm28 in
- 1970s1970/7158 cm23 in1971/7272 cm28 in1972/7389 cm35 in1973/7447 cm19 in1974/7552 cm20 in1975/7667 cm26 in1976/7759 cm23 in1977/7874 cm29 in1978/7988 cm35 in1979/8083 cm33 in
- 1980s1980/8175 cm30 in1981/8264 cm25 in1982/8350 cm20 in1983/8453 cm21 in1984/8552 cm20 in1985/861.1 m43 in1986/8785 cm33 in1987/8897 cm38 in1988/8969 cm27 in1989/9059 cm23 in
- 1990s1990/9185 cm33 in1991/9239 cm15 in1992/9366 cm26 in1993/9461 cm24 in1994/9536 cm14 in1995/9644 cm17 in1996/9769 cm27 in1997/9827 cm11 in1998/9980 cm31 in1999/0082 cm32 in
- 2000s2000/0173 cm29 in2001/0247 cm19 in2002/0332 cm13 in2003/0473 cm29 in2004/0565 cm26 in2005/0639 cm15 in2006/0768 cm27 in2007/0835 cm14 in2008/0954 cm21 in2009/1092 cm36 in
- 2010s2010/1171 cm28 in2011/1253 cm21 in2012/131.2 m45 in2013/1468 cm27 in2014/1560 cm24 in2015/1645 cm18 in2016/1762 cm24 in2017/1846 cm18 in2018/1923 cm9 in2019/2065 cm26 in
- 2020s2020/2141 cm16 in2021/2252 cm20 in2022/2333 cm13 in2023/2450 cm20 in2024/2551 cm20 in2025/2634 cm13 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