Canada

Clearwater Ski Hill

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
139cm

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
418–720 m
Across
2.1 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.

Clearwater Ski Hill, in Canada, runs from 418 m at the base to 720 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.1 km across, with 13 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 9.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 139 cm of snowfall a season, 1,816th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 93rd in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (194 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (78 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (45 and 34 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
139cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
78cm
The middle winter of the 12: 131 cm. The best: 194 cm.
World rank
1816
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
93
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
84
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 558 m, 21 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.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Clearwater Demonstration Forest Recreation Site5.3 km160 cm1541

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
13
Run length
9.6km
Lifts
2
Vertical
302m
Top 720 m · base 418 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.5 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 72%
East 2%
South 0%
West 25%

74% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.1 km
Easy 6 · 4.8 km
Intermediate 3 · 3.1 km
Advanced 3 · 1.6 km

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Rope tow1

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

The most snow falls in December. March brings 62% 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 21 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.

45cm
Dec
34cm
Jan
39cm
Feb
21cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 139 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 78 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 194 cm (2.5 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada the leanest winter was 2014/15; here it was a different one.

155
183
128
160
78
169
108
133
118
127
111
194
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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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