Whakapapa, New Zealand. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 10% of 736 resorts
+1.3°C+2.3°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−34%
The trend: from 34 cm13 in to 23 cm9 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
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 10 to 7. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit−21%
Then
30.533 cm12 in
Now
24.033 cm9 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
27.667 cm11 in
Now
22.433 cm9 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.4°F
Then
-4°C26°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s195037 cm15 in195167 cm26 in195214 cm6 in195338 cm15 in195435 cm14 in195518 cm7 in195657 cm22 in195731 cm12 in195829 cm11 in195916 cm6 in
- 1960s196034 cm13 in196168 cm27 in196211 cm4 in196335 cm14 in196425 cm10 in196547 cm19 in196626 cm10 in196713 cm5 in196840 cm16 in196926 cm10 in
- 1970s197016 cm6 in197111 cm4 in197227 cm11 in197319 cm7 in197425 cm10 in197532 cm13 in197643 cm17 in197738 cm15 in197821 cm8 in197917 cm7 in
- 1980s198041 cm16 in198129 cm11 in198239 cm15 in198314 cm6 in198421 cm8 in198535 cm14 in198619 cm7 in19879 cm4 in198810 cm4 in19899 cm4 in
- 1990s199025 cm10 in199138 cm15 in199285 cm33 in199327 cm11 in199456 cm22 in199561 cm24 in199623 cm9 in199738 cm15 in19985 cm2 in19998 cm3 in
- 2000s200022 cm9 in200123 cm9 in200222 cm9 in200318 cm7 in200443 cm17 in200516 cm6 in200640 cm16 in200716 cm6 in200847 cm19 in200945 cm18 in
- 2010s201027 cm11 in201128 cm11 in201221 cm8 in201324 cm9 in201442 cm17 in201523 cm9 in201640 cm16 in201723 cm9 in201818 cm7 in201940 cm16 in
- 2020s202018 cm7 in202116 cm6 in20229 cm4 in202315 cm6 in20243 cm1 in20258 cm3 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