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Typical snowfall
73cm
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
200–254 m
Across
1.5 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.
Brandywine Ski Resort, in United States, runs from 200 m at the base to 254 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 9 marked runs and 9 lifts (about 2 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 73 cm of snowfall a season, 2,638th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 452nd in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (104 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (44 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 26 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
73cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
44cm
The middle winter of the 12: 69 cm. The best: 104 cm.
World rank
2638
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
452
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
484
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 205 m, 323 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.
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
9
Run length
2km
Lifts
9
Vertical
54m
Top 254 m · base 200 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedLift
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.Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.4 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.2°
Which way the slopes face
North67%
East33%
South0%
West0%
100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 42% 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. In amount, March brings 11 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
16cmDec
26cmJan
20cmFeb
11cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 73 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 44 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 104 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.