China

西域滑雪场

12 / 100 Powder Score
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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
3°C
Max wind
5 km/h
Elevation
1,036–1,194 m
Across
1.2 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 Cloudy 0 −4 to 7 7
Wed 11 Nov Cloudy 0 −1 to 6 5
Thu 12 Nov Snow 0 0 to 2 3
Fri 13 Nov Drizzle 0 −7 to 0 5
Sat 14 Nov Snow 1 −12 to −1 6
Sun 15 Nov Snow showers 7 −10 to −3 6
Mon 16 Nov Fog 0 −18 to −3 7

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
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

西域滑雪场, in China, runs from 1,036 m at the base to 1,194 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 4 marked runs (about 2.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 58 cm of snowfall a season, 2,763rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 21st in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (108 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (33 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (17 and 13 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
2.5km
Vertical
159m
Top 1,194 m · base 1,036 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 map0.9 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 0%
South 16%
West 84%

Only 0% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (84%).

By difficulty

Other 4 · 2.5 km

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
58cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
33cm
The middle winter of the 12: 53 cm. The best: 108 cm.
World rank
2763
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
21
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
73
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 1,072 m, 219 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
将军山滑雪场8.7 km52 cm2808
野卡峡野雪滑雪区(暂无缆车)33.0 km109 cm2250

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 16 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

17cm
Dec
13cm
Jan
13cm
Feb
16cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 58 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 33 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 108 cm (3.3 times as much).

52
50
49
40
33
48
54
62
73
108
60
70
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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