Norway

Finse Skisenter

24 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Clear
Official site
Snow 48h
2cm
Next 72h
4cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
−3°C
Max wind
23 km/h
Elevation
1,350 m
Across
0.9 km

Updated: 12 Oct 2026, 09:34

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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 ↗

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Mon 12 Oct Partly cloudy 0 −8 to 1 22
Tue 13 Oct Snow 4 −1 to 2 47
Wed 14 Oct Snow 1 −1 to 2 45
Thu 15 Oct Rain 0 1 to 4 21
Fri 16 Oct Snow showers 2 −1 to 4 16
Sat 17 Oct Snow 0 −7 to −1 13
Sun 18 Oct Drizzle 0 −7 to −1 16

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 5/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 11/20
Wind 6/10
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

Finse Skisenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 1,350 m. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 468 cm of snowfall a season, 99th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 16th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (761 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (293 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (137 and 130 cm on average).

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
1

Lift types

  • Drag lift1

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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
468cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
293cm
The middle winter of the 12: 461 cm. The best: 761 cm.
World rank
99
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
16
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
3
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 1,350 m, 795 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Sysendalen Skisenter23.0 km399 cm175
Hallingskarvet skisenter28.0 km236 cm816
Ski Geilo39.0 km171 cm1407
Skarslia Ski- og Akesenter43.0 km203 cm1130

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 98 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

137cm
Dec
130cm
Jan
104cm
Feb
98cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 468 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 293 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 761 cm (2.6 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

419
351
505
442
410
761
336
576
479
520
520
293
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.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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