Norway

Bortelid Skisenter

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
361cm
Elevation
579–805 m
Across
1.6 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 ↗

Bortelid Skisenter, in Norway, runs from 579 m at the base to 805 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 10 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 4.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 361 cm of snowfall a season, 246th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 34th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (545 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (260 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 106 cm.

Below are links to its official live camera.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
361cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
260cm
The middle winter of the 12: 338 cm. The best: 545 cm.
World rank
246
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
34
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
57
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 643 m, 88 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Ljosland skisenter9.4 km378 cm208
Fidjeland Skitrekk34.0 km486 cm87
Sirdal Skisenter38.0 km449 cm110
Ådneram Skitrekk39.0 km486 cm87

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
10
Run length
4.5km
Lifts
6
Vertical
226m
Top 805 m · base 579 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
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 map1.1 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 24%
South 75%
West 1%

Only 24% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 3 · 1.7 km
Easy 4 · 1.6 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.3 km
Advanced 2 · 0.9 km

Lift types

  • T-bar4
  • Platter1
  • 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

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 77 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

87cm
Dec
106cm
Jan
91cm
Feb
77cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 361 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 260 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 545 cm (2.1 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

309
272
264
376
367
545
468
273
476
440
278
260
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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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