76 winters, day by day
Wanlong Paradise Resort, China. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Wanlong Paradise 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 99% of 736 resorts
+3.6°C+6.5°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -8°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−26%
The trend: from 47 cm19 in to 35 cm14 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
+3 days
The trend: from -1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 15 to 9. 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−16%
Then
45.633 cm18 in
Now
38.2 cm15 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
37.233 cm15 in
Now
28.167 cm11 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit+2 days
Then
0
Now
2
- Average temperature at the summit+2.3°C+4.2°F
Then
-11°C12°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
- 1950s1950/5134 cm13 in1951/5270 cm28 in1952/5361 cm24 in1953/5449 cm19 in1954/5550 cm20 in1955/5650 cm20 in1956/5735 cm14 in1957/5847 cm19 in1958/5958 cm23 in1959/6033 cm13 in
- 1960s1960/6142 cm17 in1961/6254 cm21 in1962/6334 cm13 in1963/6453 cm21 in1964/6549 cm19 in1965/6641 cm16 in1966/6734 cm13 in1967/6832 cm13 in1968/6947 cm19 in1969/7045 cm18 in
- 1970s1970/7138 cm15 in1971/7249 cm19 in1972/7369 cm27 in1973/7436 cm14 in1974/7530 cm12 in1975/7636 cm14 in1976/7741 cm16 in1977/7835 cm14 in1978/7969 cm27 in1979/8048 cm19 in
- 1980s1980/8142 cm17 in1981/8240 cm16 in1982/8333 cm13 in1983/8426 cm10 in1984/8552 cm20 in1985/8639 cm15 in1986/8738 cm15 in1987/8838 cm15 in1988/8916 cm6 in1989/9051 cm20 in
- 1990s1990/9155 cm22 in1991/9245 cm18 in1992/9351 cm20 in1993/9434 cm13 in1994/9519 cm7 in1995/9632 cm13 in1996/9728 cm11 in1997/9839 cm15 in1998/9934 cm13 in1999/0029 cm11 in
- 2000s2000/0136 cm14 in2001/0257 cm22 in2002/0366 cm26 in2003/0445 cm18 in2004/0536 cm14 in2005/0614 cm6 in2006/0740 cm16 in2007/0830 cm12 in2008/0939 cm15 in2009/1073 cm29 in
- 2010s2010/1123 cm9 in2011/1225 cm10 in2012/1378 cm31 in2013/1416 cm6 in2014/1518 cm7 in2015/1664 cm25 in2016/1745 cm18 in2017/1819 cm7 in2018/1938 cm15 in2019/2039 cm15 in
- 2020s2020/2147 cm19 in2021/2261 cm24 in2022/2325 cm10 in2023/2426 cm10 in2024/2530 cm12 in2025/2626 cm10 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