China

天桥沟滑雪场

15 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
0°C
Max wind
14 km/h
Elevation
498–973 m
Across
2.0 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −7 to 7 6
Wed 11 Nov Fog 0 −4 to 6 20
Thu 12 Nov Drizzle 0 0 to 9 17
Fri 13 Nov Drizzle 0 −1 to 5 10
Sat 14 Nov Drizzle 0 −1 to 9 6
Sun 15 Nov Fog 0 −5 to 3 21
Mon 16 Nov Drizzle 0 −5 to 4 19

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 1/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

天桥沟滑雪场, in China, runs from 498 m at the base to 973 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.0 km across, with 4 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 4.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 38 cm of snowfall a season, 2,893rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 46th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (70 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (14 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (10 and 8 cm on average).

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
4
Run length
4.6km
Lifts
4
Vertical
475m
Top 973 m · base 498 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.8 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 22%
East 74%
South 1%
West 2%

96% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 1 · 0.6 km
Intermediate 1 · 1.8 km
Advanced 2 · 2.2 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet3
  • Chairlift1

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.

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
38cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
14cm
The middle winter of the 12: 37 cm. The best: 70 cm.
World rank
2893
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
46
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
96
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 709 m, 144 m below 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
云山滑雪场40.0 km36 cm2900

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 9 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

10cm
Dec
8cm
Jan
13cm
Feb
9cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 38 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 14 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 70 cm (5.0 times as much).

50
36
52
38
14
70
37
30
24
48
29
30
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.

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