China

羌人谷滑雪场

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
97cm
Elevation
3,303–3,386 m
Across
1.6 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.

羌人谷滑雪场, in China, runs from 3,303 m at the base to 3,386 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 10 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 4.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 97 cm of snowfall a season, 2,406th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in China. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (75 cm), reached 77% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (14 and 12 cm on average).

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
97cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
75cm
The middle winter of the 12: 95 cm. The best: 128 cm.
World rank
2406
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
4
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
2
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 3,366 m, 2,513 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
九鼎山·太子岭滑雪场29.0 km70 cm2666

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
10
Run length
4.5km
Lifts
2
Vertical
83m
Top 3,386 m · base 3,303 m

Run map

NoviceEasyAdvanced 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 pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 53%
East 11%
South 35%
West 1%

64% 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

Novice 1 · 0.2 km
Easy 6 · 3.2 km
Advanced 3 · 1.1 km

Lift types

  • 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

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 50 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

14cm
Dec
12cm
Jan
22cm
Feb
50cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 97 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 75 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 128 cm (1.7 times as much).

78
75
95
89
79
106
98
95
98
95
128
125
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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