Iran

Abali Ski Resort

31 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Clear
Snow 48h
7cm
Next 72h
4cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Snow 24h
5 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
0°C
Max wind
12 km/h
Elevation
2,490 m
Across
1.3 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −3 to 3 12
Wed 11 Nov Snow showers 1 −2 to 3 12
Thu 12 Nov Snow showers 3 −6 to 2 15
Fri 13 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −1 to 4 9
Sat 14 Nov Cloudy 0 1 to 7 12
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 0 to 7 10
Mon 16 Nov Cloudy 0 1 to 7 10

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 17/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Abali Ski Resort is a ski area in Iran, at about 2,490 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 1 marked run and 8 lifts (about 0.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 175 cm of snowfall a season, 1,368th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 16th in Iran. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (286 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (94 cm). March still brings 52 cm on average, close to February, its snowiest month.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
1
Run length
0.5km
Lifts
8
Vertical
116m
Top 2,566 m · base 2,450 m

Run map

Other Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.5 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 63%
East 37%
South 0%
West 0%

100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Other 1 · 0.5 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift5
  • Gondola1
  • Rope tow1
  • Chairlift1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
175cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
94cm
The middle winter of the 12: 172 cm. The best: 286 cm.
World rank
1368
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
16
of 22 in Iran
Elevation rank
17
Highest to lowest, of 22 in Iran. The centre point sits at 2,490 m, 190 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 52 cm, about the same as the median of 52 cm.

29cm
Dec
39cm
Jan
55cm
Feb
52cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 175 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 94 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 286 cm (3.0 times as much).

94
112
210
135
250
192
179
286
165
137
108
229
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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