Austria

Aichelberglifte Karlstift

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
97cm
Elevation
888–1,045 m
Across
1.4 km

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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Aichelberglifte Karlstift, in Austria, runs from 888 m at the base to 1,045 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 9 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 4.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 97 cm of snowfall a season, 2,406th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 227th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (183 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (59 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 35 cm.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
97cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
59cm
The middle winter of the 12: 95 cm. The best: 183 cm.
World rank
2406
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
227
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
206
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 969 m, 372 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Arralifte Harmanschlag7.0 km80 cm2583
Viehberg9.5 km97 cmsame grid cell2406
Schilift Freistadt22.0 km64 cm2717
Sternsteinlifte35.0 km90 cm2478
Ski areál Lipno-Kramolín38.0 km83 cm2549

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
9
Run length
4.4km
Lifts
2
Vertical
157m
Top 1,045 m · base 888 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.4 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9°

Which way the slopes face

North 32%
East 47%
South 19%
West 2%

79% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Easy 5 · 2.9 km
Intermediate 3 · 1.3 km
Advanced 1 · 0.1 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift2

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 40% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 14 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

27cm
Dec
35cm
Jan
20cm
Feb
14cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 97 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 59 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 183 cm (3.1 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25.

76
77
88
108
183
85
102
106
102
110
59
65
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.

Official piste map ↗

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