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Typical snowfall
185cm
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
1,764–2,132 m
Across
1.3 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.Snow report on the official site ↗
Cherry Peak Ski Area, in United States, runs from 1,764 m at the base to 2,132 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 37 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 11 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 185 cm of snowfall a season, 1,281st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 106th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (293 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (106 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (50 and 48 cm on average).
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
185cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
106cm
The middle winter of the 12: 172 cm. The best: 293 cm.
World rank
1281
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
106
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
134
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 1,930 m, 1,402 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.
The most snow falls in December. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 41 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
50cmDec
48cmJan
45cmFeb
41cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 185 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 106 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 293 cm (2.8 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.
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.