January 20, 2026 Powder Day
By: Caberfae Peaks · 21 Jan
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
1cm
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
- 8°C
- Max wind
- 18 km/h
- Elevation
- 357–465 m
- Across
- 1.4 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. Snow report on the official site ↗
7-day outlook
| Date | Weather | Snow (cm) | Low / high (°C) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 9 Nov | Cloudy | 0 | 4 to 11 | 16 |
| Tue 10 Nov | Cloudy | 0 | 4 to 14 | 18 |
| Wed 11 Nov | Rain | 0 | 3 to 8 | 15 |
| Thu 12 Nov | Snow showers | 1 | 0 to 5 | 21 |
| Fri 13 Nov | Snow showers | 1 | −3 to 2 | 16 |
| Sat 14 Nov | Fog | 0 | −2 to 3 | 14 |
| Sun 15 Nov | Drizzle | 0 | 2 to 4 | 13 |
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
Caberfae Peaks, in United States, runs from 357 m at the base to 465 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 20 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 110 cm of snowfall a season, 2,236th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 342nd in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (74 cm), reached 67% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 36 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
20
Run length
6.6km
Lifts
5
Vertical
108m
Top 465 m · base 357 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.7 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 40%
East 0%
South 3%
West 57%
Only 40% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (57%).
By difficulty
Easy 7 · 1.9 km
Intermediate 9 · 3 km
Advanced 4 · 1.7 km
Lift types
- Chairlift4
- Rope tow1
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.
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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
110cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
74cm
The middle winter of the 12: 108 cm. The best: 140 cm.
World rank
2236
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
342
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
340
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 396 m, 132 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.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Mountain | 38.0 km | 119 cm | 2097 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in January. March brings 58% 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 21 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
29cmDec
36cmJan
25cmFeb
21cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 110 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 74 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 140 cm (1.9 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
74
106
120
94
125
106
89
109
140
81
138
138
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.
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