No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
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 of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
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 ↗
Château-d'Oex is a ski area in Switzerland, at about 1,366 m. Within 2.5 km of its centre the map shows 26 marked runs (about 17 km of piste).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 298 cm of snowfall a season, 489th of 3,069 worldwide and 89th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (473 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (208 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 90 cm.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Les Mosses | 6.1 km | 284 cm | 549 |
| Gstaad - Saanen - Rougemont | 8.0 km | 318 cm | 408 |
| Wispile – Gstaad | 12.0 km | 318 cm | 408 |
| Rochers de Naye | 12.0 km | 284 cm | 549 |
| Rellerli – Schönried | 13.0 km | 318 cm | 408 |
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 74% of January’s snowfall.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 298 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 208 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 473 cm (2.3 times as much).
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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