SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Togari Onsen Ski Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Togari Onsen Ski Resort
Average winter
3.9 m155 in
Snowiest winter
5.3 m208 in
Leanest winter
2.2 m85 in
Powder days a winter
7

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 33% of 736 resorts

+1.9°C+3.4°F

The trend: from -1°C30°F to 1°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-3°27°-2°28°-1°30°0°32°1°34°2°36°

Snowfall at the summit

−4%

The trend: from 4.0 m159 in to 3.9 m152 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in5.0 m197 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 7 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.

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Days with a base at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 114 to 104. Point at a winter to read it.

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Days with fresh snow at the summit

−7 days

The trend: from 80 to 72. Point at a winter to read it.

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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−1%

Then

3.9 m155 in

Now

3.9 m154 in

Snowfall in the village−6%

Then

2.7 m107 in

Now

2.5 m100 in

Powder days at the summit+1 day

Then

7

Now

7

Days with a base at the summit−4 days

Then

109

Now

105

Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F

Then

-1°C30°F

Now

0°C32°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

Most snow in a day
50 cm20 in
Snowiest winter
5.3 m208 in
Leanest winter
2.2 m85 in
Deepest snow on the ground
194 cm76 in
Coldest night at the summit
-21°C-5°F
Strongest gust at the summit
117 km/h73 mph

All winters

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