76 winters, day by day
Winter Park Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Winter Park Resort, United States. 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 22% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.0°F
The trend: from -13°C9°F to -11°C12°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−3%
The trend: from 2.0 m79 in to 2.0 m77 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 140 to 127. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 56 to 54. 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−2%
Then
1.9 m77 in
Now
1.9 m75 in
- Snowfall in the village−4%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.6 m65 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
134
Now
129
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.9°F
Then
-13°C9°F
Now
-12°C11°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m89 in1951/522.5 m100 in1952/531.9 m76 in1953/541.5 m59 in1954/551.6 m64 in1955/562.2 m85 in1956/572.5 m99 in1957/581.9 m73 in1958/592.1 m81 in1959/601.9 m74 in
- 1960s1960/611.9 m74 in1961/622.2 m85 in1962/631.5 m57 in1963/641.7 m68 in1964/652.4 m93 in1965/661.2 m49 in1966/671.7 m65 in1967/681.8 m70 in1968/691.6 m65 in1969/701.7 m69 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m78 in1971/721.7 m66 in1972/732.1 m84 in1973/742.4 m93 in1974/752.0 m78 in1975/761.8 m72 in1976/771.7 m66 in1977/782.1 m83 in1978/792.1 m81 in1979/802.7 m107 in
- 1980s1980/811.4 m56 in1981/821.9 m74 in1982/832.5 m98 in1983/843.4 m133 in1984/851.9 m74 in1985/862.3 m91 in1986/872.1 m81 in1987/882.3 m89 in1988/892.3 m91 in1989/902.3 m91 in
- 1990s1990/912.1 m83 in1991/922.0 m78 in1992/932.3 m89 in1993/941.9 m73 in1994/952.1 m84 in1995/962.1 m82 in1996/972.3 m92 in1997/981.8 m71 in1998/992.2 m85 in1999/001.7 m69 in
- 2000s2000/011.6 m64 in2001/021.2 m48 in2002/032.1 m83 in2003/041.8 m72 in2004/052.1 m81 in2005/061.7 m68 in2006/072.1 m83 in2007/082.1 m83 in2008/092.2 m87 in2009/102.0 m77 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m77 in2011/121.3 m52 in2012/131.7 m69 in2013/142.3 m91 in2014/151.7 m69 in2015/162.3 m91 in2016/172.2 m85 in2017/181.7 m68 in2018/192.1 m84 in2019/201.9 m75 in
- 2020s2020/212.0 m78 in2021/222.0 m77 in2022/231.9 m75 in2023/242.2 m88 in2024/251.8 m72 in2025/261.2 m48 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