China

奇峡沟滑雪场

18 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Cloudy
Snow 48h
3cm
Next 72h
6cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
7°C
Max wind
17 km/h
Elevation
3,229–3,266 m
Across
0.5 km

Updated: 12 Oct 2026, 09:34

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)
Mon 12 Oct Snow showers 0 3 to 14 17
Tue 13 Oct Snow showers 1 1 to 11 9
Wed 14 Oct Snow showers 5 2 to 10 6
Thu 15 Oct Snow showers 0 2 to 13 13
Fri 16 Oct Snow showers 3 1 to 14 9
Sat 17 Oct Thunderstorm 1 3 to 14 9
Sun 18 Oct Snow showers 0 4 to 13 9

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 8/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
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

奇峡沟滑雪场, in China, runs from 3,229 m at the base to 3,266 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 3 marked runs (about 0.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 87 cm of snowfall a season, 2,510th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (126 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (56 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 43 cm.

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
0.6km
Vertical
37m
Top 3,266 m · base 3,229 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 map0.3 km
Steepest pitch6°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 100%
South 0%
West 0%

100% 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 · 0.6 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

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
87cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
56cm
The middle winter of the 12: 80 cm. The best: 126 cm.
World rank
2510
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
5
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
3
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 3,238 m, 2,385 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 43 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

10cm
Dec
14cm
Jan
20cm
Feb
43cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 87 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 56 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 126 cm (2.3 times as much).

73
56
66
77
75
99
83
126
113
105
104
64
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.

More places to look

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