China

马鬃山滑雪场

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
20cm

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
1,240–1,503 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.

马鬃山滑雪场, in China, runs from 1,240 m at the base to 1,503 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.1 km across, with 13 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 7.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 20 cm of snowfall a season, 2,978th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 102nd in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (39 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (10 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (3 and 3 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
20cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
10cm
The middle winter of the 12: 17 cm. The best: 39 cm.
World rank
2978
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
102
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
61
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 1,271 m, 418 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
大青山太伟滑雪场26.0 km16 cm3003
岱海滑雪场44.0 km19 cm2985

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
7.7km
Lifts
6
Vertical
263m
Top 1,503 m · base 1,240 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 15%
East 8%
South 40%
West 38%

Only 23% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (40%).

By difficulty

Easy 3 · 0.7 km
Intermediate 6 · 4.4 km
Advanced 3 · 2.4 km
Other 1 · 0.2 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet4
  • Gondola1
  • Chairlift1

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 March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 7 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

3cm
Dec
3cm
Jan
6cm
Feb
7cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 20 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 10 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 39 cm (3.9 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China the leanest winter was 2018/19; here it was a different one.

17
10
31
10
15
23
16
30
18
39
13
17
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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