76 winters, day by day
Takasu Snow Park, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Takasu Snow Park, 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 40% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 2.8 m110 in to 2.5 m98 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 108 to 91. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 65 to 58. 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−6%
Then
2.7 m107 in
Now
2.6 m101 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.0 m80 in
Now
1.8 m70 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
102
Now
94
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-3°C26°F
Now
-2°C28°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
- 1950s1950/512.8 m111 in1951/523.4 m135 in1952/532.9 m114 in1953/541.8 m69 in1954/552.8 m111 in1955/563.2 m125 in1956/573.1 m121 in1957/582.5 m97 in1958/592.0 m77 in1959/601.8 m71 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m99 in1961/622.7 m104 in1962/633.3 m129 in1963/642.6 m102 in1964/653.2 m128 in1965/662.9 m113 in1966/672.1 m83 in1967/683.5 m139 in1968/692.9 m115 in1969/703.4 m133 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m93 in1971/722.1 m83 in1972/732.4 m94 in1973/743.7 m146 in1974/752.6 m104 in1975/762.2 m87 in1976/773.1 m122 in1977/783.4 m133 in1978/792.0 m78 in1979/802.6 m101 in
- 1980s1980/813.7 m146 in1981/822.2 m85 in1982/832.8 m109 in1983/843.6 m140 in1984/852.4 m94 in1985/863.4 m134 in1986/872.5 m97 in1987/882.3 m92 in1988/892.2 m85 in1989/902.0 m78 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m110 in1991/922.0 m80 in1992/932.3 m91 in1993/942.5 m98 in1994/952.4 m96 in1995/963.3 m131 in1996/972.5 m96 in1997/982.4 m95 in1998/992.3 m91 in1999/002.8 m110 in
- 2000s2000/013.0 m119 in2001/022.8 m109 in2002/033.1 m123 in2003/042.7 m107 in2004/052.8 m109 in2005/063.3 m130 in2006/071.7 m65 in2007/082.3 m91 in2008/092.4 m93 in2009/102.7 m105 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m102 in2011/122.3 m92 in2012/133.2 m127 in2013/142.8 m108 in2014/153.9 m152 in2015/161.8 m72 in2016/172.3 m92 in2017/183.0 m117 in2018/192.1 m81 in2019/201.7 m67 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m81 in2021/222.5 m98 in2022/232.1 m82 in2023/242.7 m104 in2024/253.3 m130 in2025/261.7 m68 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