Austria

Fendels

Off season
Official site

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
243cm
Elevation
1,340–2,248 m
Across
4.5 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Fendels, in Austria, runs from 1,340 m at the base to 2,248 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.5 km across, with 19 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 9.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 243 cm of snowfall a season, 780th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 98th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (360 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (146 cm). March still brings 64 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

Below are links to its official live camera.

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
243cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
146cm
The middle winter of the 12: 217 cm. The best: 360 cm.
World rank
780
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
98
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
81
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,545 m, 204 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
Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis9.6 km221 cm945
Venet12.0 km235 cm823
Hochzeiger14.0 km276 cm589
See15.0 km275 cm593
Rotecklift / Tobadill15.0 km229 cm885

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
19
Run length
9.8km
Lifts
6
Vertical
907m
Top 2,248 m · base 1,340 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.9 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 16%
East 3%
South 5%
West 76%

Only 19% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 11 · 4.7 km
Intermediate 5 · 3.6 km
Advanced 3 · 1.6 km

Lift types

  • T-bar3
  • Gondola1
  • Platter1
  • 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

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 96% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

63cm
Dec
67cm
Jan
49cm
Feb
64cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 243 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 146 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 360 cm (2.5 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17.

219
215
146
308
360
239
307
203
210
353
174
177
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.

Live cameras

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Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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