76 winters, day by day
Sun Peaks Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sun Peaks Resort, Canada. 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 76% of 736 resorts
+2.6°C+4.6°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -8°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−22%
The trend: from 2.2 m88 in to 1.8 m69 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−19 days
The trend: from 160 to 141. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 64 to 53. 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−15%
Then
2.2 m86 in
Now
1.9 m74 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
2.0 m78 in
Now
1.6 m63 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
155
Now
143
- Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/512.2 m86 in1951/522.5 m98 in1952/532.0 m79 in1953/542.4 m96 in1954/552.2 m85 in1955/562.3 m92 in1956/572.1 m82 in1957/582.3 m92 in1958/592.1 m81 in1959/602.1 m81 in
- 1960s1960/612.1 m83 in1961/622.1 m83 in1962/631.9 m76 in1963/642.7 m106 in1964/652.3 m89 in1965/662.3 m92 in1966/672.5 m98 in1967/682.3 m89 in1968/692.2 m88 in1969/701.6 m62 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m120 in1971/722.7 m107 in1972/731.9 m74 in1973/742.8 m111 in1974/752.5 m100 in1975/762.3 m91 in1976/771.3 m52 in1977/781.9 m74 in1978/791.6 m63 in1979/801.5 m61 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m67 in1981/822.3 m89 in1982/831.9 m75 in1983/841.7 m67 in1984/851.9 m75 in1985/861.3 m52 in1986/871.6 m61 in1987/881.6 m63 in1988/891.8 m69 in1989/901.9 m74 in
- 1990s1990/912.0 m80 in1991/921.8 m72 in1992/931.7 m68 in1993/942.3 m89 in1994/951.9 m74 in1995/962.1 m83 in1996/972.5 m98 in1997/981.4 m56 in1998/992.8 m109 in1999/001.9 m76 in
- 2000s2000/011.4 m54 in2001/021.8 m72 in2002/031.6 m64 in2003/041.6 m63 in2004/051.6 m61 in2005/061.8 m69 in2006/072.1 m82 in2007/081.7 m69 in2008/091.6 m63 in2009/101.6 m61 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m80 in2011/122.0 m78 in2012/132.0 m80 in2013/142.2 m85 in2014/151.6 m62 in2015/162.2 m87 in2016/172.1 m84 in2017/182.8 m109 in2018/191.4 m56 in2019/201.9 m73 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m72 in2021/221.9 m74 in2022/232.1 m82 in2023/241.6 m63 in2024/251.7 m67 in2025/261.7 m66 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