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Typical snowfall
262cm
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 (est.)
637–637 m
Across
5.2 km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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.
Chiwawa Sno-Park is a ski area in United States, on slopes between roughly 637 and 637 m. Its mapped area is about 5.2 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 262 cm of snowfall a season, 660th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 53rd in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2015/16 (450 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (190 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (96 and 77 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
262cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
190cm
The middle winter of the 12: 247 cm. The best: 450 cm.
World rank
660
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
53
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
235
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 637 m, 109 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 48% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 37 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
96cmDec
77cmJan
51cmFeb
37cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 262 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 190 cm; the biggest was 2015/16 with 450 cm (2.4 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.