Alyeska Resort
Alyeska Resort is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 579 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 4.2 km². Within 2.9 km of the centre, the map shows 101 marked runs and 8 lifts, totalling about 38 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 503 cm of snowfall a season, 71st (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. The nearest city of any size is Anchorage, about 52 km away. 4 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 26 Sept | 0.9 | 2.6 / 5.4 | 12.9 |
| 🌧️ 27 Sept | 0 | 2.5 / 5.4 | 8.1 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 0.5 / 6.9 | 6.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | -0.7 / 5.9 | 7 |
| ❄️ 30 Sept | 0.1 | 0.9 / 4.4 | 6.9 |
| ❄️ 1 Oct | 1.5 | 0.7 / 3.6 | 3.7 |
| 🌤️ 2 Oct | 0 | -4.7 / 4.9 | 7.5 |
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
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 23% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift4
- Magic carpet2
- Cable car1
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
Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arctic Valley Ski Area | 39 km | 198 cm | 1102 |
| Hilltop Ski Area | 41 km | 153 cm | 1541 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 58% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 104 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28