South Korea

Alpensia Resort

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
45cm

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 →

Elevation
659 m
Across
1.9 km

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.

Alpensia Resort is a ski area in South Korea, at about 659 m. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 1 marked run and 9 lifts (about 0.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 45 cm of snowfall a season, 2,845th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 7th in South Korea. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (78 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (29 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (11 and 10 cm on average).

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
45cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
29cm
The middle winter of the 12: 42 cm. The best: 78 cm.
World rank
2845
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
7
of 15 in South Korea
Elevation rank
6
Highest to lowest, of 15 in South Korea. The centre point sits at 659 m, 65 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
Pheonix Park12.0 km50 cm2817
Yongpyong Resort42.0 km84 cm2539

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
0.3km
Lifts
9
Vertical
67m
Top 648 m · base 581 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 map0.3 km
Steepest pitch13°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 88%
East 12%
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 · 0.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift7
  • Gondola1
  • Magic carpet1

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

The most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 12 cm, more than the median of 7 cm.

11cm
Dec
10cm
Jan
12cm
Feb
12cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 45 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 29 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 78 cm (2.7 times as much). For 40% of the 15 ski areas in South Korea the leanest winter was 2019/20; here it was a different one.

49
30
48
78
33
35
29
33
31
70
49
50
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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

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

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