Austria

Freesports Arena Dachstein Krippenstein

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Snow 48h
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Next 72h
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A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
5°C
Max wind
13 km/h
Elevation
599–2,066 m
Across
5.3 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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)
Tue 10 Nov Showers 0 4 to 6 10
Wed 11 Nov Showers 0 5 to 9 13
Thu 12 Nov Rain 0 4 to 8 7
Fri 13 Nov Snow 2 −3 to 6 13
Sat 14 Nov Cloudy 0 −5 to −1 11
Sun 15 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −2 to 6 12
Mon 16 Nov Cloudy 0 2 to 9 15

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
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

Freesports Arena Dachstein Krippenstein, in Austria, runs from 599 m at the base to 2,066 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.3 km across, with 17 marked runs and 9 lifts (about 9.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 283 cm of snowfall a season, 554th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 50th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (534 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (182 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 84 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
17
Run length
9.7km
Lifts
9
Vertical
1,468m
Top 2,066 m · base 599 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate 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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map4.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 46%
East 27%
South 10%
West 17%

73% 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

Easy 12 · 3.5 km
Intermediate 5 · 6.2 km

Lift types

  • Cable car3
  • Rope tow2
  • Drag lift2
  • Chairlift1
  • Magic carpet1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

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.

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

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
283cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
182cm
The middle winter of the 12: 270 cm. The best: 534 cm.
World rank
554
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
50
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
84
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,517 m, 176 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
Ramsau am Dachstein12.0 km307 cm454
Loser-Altaussee15.0 km309 cm451
Schladming Dachstein15.0 km299 cm484
Skiregion Dachstein West16.0 km284 cm549
Hauser Kaibling17.0 km299 cm484

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 71% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 60 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

72cm
Dec
84cm
Jan
66cm
Feb
60cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 283 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 182 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 534 cm (2.9 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

286
236
233
303
534
302
241
306
254
317
196
182
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 ↗

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