Sweden

Bydalsfjällen

10 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
16cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
1°C
Max wind
17 km/h
Elevation
583–1,001 m
Across
6.9 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Drizzle 0 0 to 4 18
Wed 11 Nov Snow 3 −2 to 0 13
Thu 12 Nov Snow showers 12 −6 to −2 13
Fri 13 Nov Snow 4 −6 to −5 19
Sat 14 Nov Snow showers 1 −7 to 3 27
Sun 15 Nov Snow showers 1 −1 to 3 33
Mon 16 Nov Snow showers 1 −3 to 0 25

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Bydalsfjällen, in Sweden, runs from 583 m at the base to 1,001 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 6.9 km across, with 53 marked runs and 13 lifts (about 43 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 139 cm of snowfall a season, 1,816th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 22nd in Sweden. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2016/17 (86 cm), reached 62% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 46 cm.

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
53
Run length
43km
Lifts
13
Vertical
418m
Top 1,001 m · base 583 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map4.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 5%
East 33%
South 55%
West 7%

Only 38% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (55%).

By difficulty

Novice 3 · 6.6 km
Easy 13 · 11.4 km
Intermediate 32 · 21.8 km
Advanced 5 · 3.3 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift12
  • Platter1

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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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
139cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
86cm
The middle winter of the 12: 148 cm. The best: 168 cm.
World rank
1816
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
22
of 69 in Sweden
Elevation rank
32
Highest to lowest, of 69 in Sweden. The centre point sits at 586 m, 75 m above 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.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Gräftåvallen14.0 km146 cm1714
Trångsviken30.0 km107 cm2287
Trillevallen38.0 km146 cm1714
Ottsjö40.0 km161 cm1527
Vålådalen42.0 km161 cm1527

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 70% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Sweden (67%). In amount, March brings 32 cm, more than the median of 25 cm.

37cm
Dec
46cm
Jan
25cm
Feb
32cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 139 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 86 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 168 cm (2.0 times as much).

120
101
86
164
168
153
162
158
157
136
142
124
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.

Map

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

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