China

黄家沟滑雪场

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
11cm

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
177–218 m
Across
1.0 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.

黄家沟滑雪场, in China, runs from 177 m at the base to 218 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 11 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 3.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 11 cm of snowfall a season, 3,032nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 154th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (22 cm), brought more than 11 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (2 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (2 and 2 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
11cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
2cm
The middle winter of the 12: 10 cm. The best: 22 cm.
World rank
3032
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
154
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
146
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 191 m, 662 m below the national median.

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
11
Run length
3.9km
Lifts
6
Vertical
41m
Top 218 m · base 177 m

Run map

Other 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 map0.8 km
Steepest pitch7°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs2.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 69%
East 1%
South 2%
West 28%

70% 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

Other 11 · 3.9 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet4
  • Chairlift2

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 4 cm, less than the median of 6 cm.

2cm
Dec
2cm
Jan
2cm
Feb
4cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 11 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 2 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 22 cm (11.0 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China the leanest winter was 2018/19; here it was a different one.

11
9
10
8
12
19
7
13
2
22
9
7
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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