China

天定山滑雪场

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
271–362 m
Across
1.3 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.

天定山滑雪场, in China, runs from 271 m at the base to 362 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 13 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 6.7 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 105th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (31 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (11 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (5 and 4 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
11cm
The middle winter of the 12: 19 cm. The best: 31 cm.
World rank
2978
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
105
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
127
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 316 m, 537 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
长春莲花山滑雪场11.0 km21 cm2973
庙香山滑雪场25.0 km22 cm2963

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
6.7km
Lifts
5
Vertical
92m
Top 362 m · base 271 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate 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 pitch13°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs5.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 4%
South 73%
West 23%

Only 4% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (73%).

By difficulty

Easy 8 · 3.5 km
Intermediate 5 · 3.2 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet3
  • Gondola2

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 as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 5 cm, less than the median of 6 cm.

5cm
Dec
4cm
Jan
5cm
Feb
5cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 20 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 11 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 31 cm (2.8 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China the leanest winter was 2018/19; here it was a different one.

27
16
24
24
13
31
20
19
11
18
16
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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