China

南天湖滑雪场

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
76cm

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
1,758–1,845 m
Across
0.8 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.

南天湖滑雪场, in China, runs from 1,758 m at the base to 1,845 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 3 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 1.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 76 cm of snowfall a season, 2,621st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 12th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (137 cm), brought more than 19 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (7 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 31 cm.

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
76cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
7cm
The middle winter of the 12: 76 cm. The best: 137 cm.
World rank
2621
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
12
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
34
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 1,777 m, 924 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
仙女山滑雪场16.0 km65 cm2704

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
3
Run length
1.3km
Lifts
3
Vertical
87m
Top 1,845 m · base 1,758 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 map0.6 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8°

Which way the slopes face

North 80%
East 11%
South 0%
West 9%

91% 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

Other 3 · 1.3 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet2
  • 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 January. March brings 23% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in China (127%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 7 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

14cm
Dec
31cm
Jan
24cm
Feb
7cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 76 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 7 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 137 cm (19.6 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China the leanest winter was 2018/19; here it was a different one.

7
35
91
107
66
79
69
137
98
72
122
23
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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