Ak Tash ski base
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.
- Elevation
- 2,045–2,327 m
- Across
- 1.7 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.
Ak Tash ski base, in Kyrgyzstan, runs from 2,045 m at the base to 2,327 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across, with 8 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 3.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 173 cm of snowfall a season, 1,389th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Kyrgyzstan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (287 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (104 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (33 and 27 cm on average).
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kashka Suu ski resort | 2.1 km | 171 cm | 1407 |
| Эдельвейс | 2.4 km | 173 cmsame grid cell | 1389 |
| Polytech ski resort | 3.4 km | 126 cm | 2018 |
| Ski base Chunkurchak | 7.6 km | 172 cm | 1401 |
| Ski Tatyr | 9.5 km | 103 cm | 2336 |
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
91% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift2
- T-bar1
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 March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 73 cm, more than the median of 59 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 173 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 104 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 287 cm (2.8 times as much). For 50% of the 12 ski areas in Kyrgyzstan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16.
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.