Canada

Clearwater Demonstration Forest Recreation Site

Off season
Official site

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
160cm
Elevation (est.)
860–860 m
Across
6.1 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Clearwater Demonstration Forest Recreation Site is a ski area in Canada, on slopes between roughly 860 and 860 m. Its mapped area is about 6.1 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 160 cm of snowfall a season, 1,541st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 67th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (228 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (87 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (50 and 39 cm on average).

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
160cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
87cm
The middle winter of the 12: 157 cm. The best: 228 cm.
World rank
1541
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
67
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
51
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 860 m, 323 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Clearwater Ski Hill5.3 km139 cm1816

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 64% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 25 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.

50cm
Dec
39cm
Jan
46cm
Feb
25cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 160 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 87 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 228 cm (2.6 times as much).

155
183
146
185
87
190
135
158
147
166
139
228
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.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

← Back to home