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Typical snowfall
174cm
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
190–695 m
Across
3.8 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.Snow report on the official site ↗
Attitash Mountain Resort, in United States, runs from 190 m at the base to 695 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.8 km across, with 85 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 39 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 174 cm of snowfall a season, 1,378th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 126th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (226 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (96 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 49 cm.
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
174cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
96cm
The middle winter of the 12: 176 cm. The best: 226 cm.
World rank
1378
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
126
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
423
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 297 m, 231 m below 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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 78% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 38 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
41cmDec
49cmJan
45cmFeb
38cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 174 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 96 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 226 cm (2.4 times as much).
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.