Iran

Chelgerd Ski Resort

Off season

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
432cm
Elevation
2,334–2,564 m
Across
0.8 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.

Chelgerd Ski Resort, in Iran, runs from 2,334 m at the base to 2,564 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 1 marked run and 2 lifts (about 0.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 432 cm of snowfall a season, 129th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Iran. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (755 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2017/18 (197 cm). March still brings 115 cm on average, close to February, its snowiest month.

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
432cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
197cm
The middle winter of the 12: 457 cm. The best: 755 cm.
World rank
129
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
1
of 22 in Iran
Elevation rank
18
Highest to lowest, of 22 in Iran. The centre point sits at 2,444 m, 236 m below the national median.

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
1
Run length
0.8km
Lifts
2
Vertical
230m
Top 2,564 m · base 2,334 m

Run map

Easy 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 map0.8 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs16.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 33%
East 67%
South 0%
West 0%

100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 1 · 0.8 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift2

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 February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 115 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.

87cm
Dec
112cm
Jan
118cm
Feb
115cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 432 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2017/18 with 197 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 755 cm (3.8 times as much).

301
430
513
197
755
462
297
502
520
451
280
479
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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