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Typical snowfall
114cm
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
2,723 m
Across
4.7 km
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.
Chimney Park Nordic Trails is a ski area in United States, at about 2,723 m. Its mapped area is about 4.7 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 114 cm of snowfall a season, 2,184th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 334th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (153 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (75 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (28 and 26 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
114cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
75cm
The middle winter of the 12: 111 cm. The best: 153 cm.
World rank
2184
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
334
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
48
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,723 m, 2,195 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 March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 34 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
28cmDec
26cmJan
27cmFeb
34cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 114 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 75 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 153 cm (2.0 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.