Norway

Ålen skisenter

16 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
3cm

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
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
1°C
Max wind
9 km/h
Elevation
398–724 m
Across
1.4 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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 Snow 0 −2 to 2 9
Wed 11 Nov Snow 1 −2 to 1 10
Thu 12 Nov Snow showers 2 −6 to −2 9
Fri 13 Nov Drizzle 0 −7 to −4 20
Sat 14 Nov Snow showers 6 −6 to 1 21
Sun 15 Nov Snow showers 2 −2 to 2 22
Mon 16 Nov Snow showers 1 −10 to −1 17

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 10/10
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

Ålen skisenter, in Norway, runs from 398 m at the base to 724 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 8 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 5.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 213 cm of snowfall a season, 1,022nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 62nd in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (294 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (142 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (59 and 57 cm on average).

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
8
Run length
5.4km
Lifts
2
Vertical
326m
Top 724 m · base 398 m

Run map

NoviceIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.9 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 75%
East 25%
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

Novice 5 · 4.2 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.7 km
Advanced 2 · 0.6 km

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Drag lift1

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
213cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
142cm
The middle winter of the 12: 200 cm. The best: 294 cm.
World rank
1022
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
62
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
67
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 560 m, 5 m above 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
Røros Alpinsenter Hummelfjell39.0 km126 cm2018

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings 95% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 54 cm, about the same as the median of 47 cm.

59cm
Dec
57cm
Jan
44cm
Feb
54cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 213 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 142 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 294 cm (2.1 times as much).

171
170
235
170
291
285
156
294
217
182
245
142
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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