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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 →
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 ↗
Area Sciistica Ussita Frontignano, in Italy, runs from 1,348 m at the base to 1,964 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.2 km across, with 40 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 17 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 168 cm of snowfall a season, 1,438th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 108th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (277 cm), brought more than 12 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (22 cm). March still brings 44 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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.
Only 20% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (76%).
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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 83% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Italy (116%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 44 cm, about the same as the median of 48 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 168 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 22 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 277 cm (12.6 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy the leanest winter was 2021/22; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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Climate and the future · 28 Aug 2026
How Much Does Snowfall Change From One Winter to the Next? Country by CountryOver twelve winters, the typical Japanese ski area's best winter was 2.3 times its worst. In Italy and Chile it was 4.6 times, in New Zealand 4.2. Canada, Finland and Sweden come out steadier than Japan.