Norway

FONNA Glacier Ski Resort

24 / 100 Powder Score
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Official site
Snow 48h
5cm
Next 72h
3cm
Snow 24h
5 cm
Next 24h
3 cm
Temperature
0°C
Max wind
64 km/h
Elevation
1,418 m
Across
2.7 km

Updated: 14 Oct 2026, 09:19

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)
Wed 14 Oct Snow 3 −1 to 2 57
Thu 15 Oct Rain 0 1 to 5 64
Fri 16 Oct Drizzle 0 −2 to 2 25
Sat 17 Oct Fog 0 −6 to −2 5
Sun 18 Oct Clear 0 −7 to 2 2
Mon 19 Oct Partly cloudy 0 −6 to 3 2
Tue 20 Oct Clear 0 −3 to 8 1

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 12/40
Forecast (24h) 6/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 0/10
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

FONNA Glacier Ski Resort is a ski area in Norway, at about 1,418 m. Its mapped area is about 2.7 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 783 cm of snowfall a season, 1st of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (1,350 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (479 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (223 and 211 cm on average).

The nearest city of any size is Bergen, about 65 km away in a straight line.

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
783cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
479cm
The middle winter of the 12: 802 cm. The best: 1350 cm.
World rank
1
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
1
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
2
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 1,418 m, 863 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
Aktiven skiheis30.0 km634 cm32
Furedalen alpin31.0 km592 cm44
Bygdastølen skiskytterstadion35.0 km394 cm184
Eikedalen skisenter36.0 km693 cm17
Fjellhaugen skisenter46.0 km433 cm127

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 159 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

223cm
Dec
211cm
Jan
190cm
Feb
159cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 783 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 479 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 1,350 cm (2.8 times as much).

854
551
793
657
566
1,350
479
1,013
819
892
811
609
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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