Austria

Gerlosstein / Hainzenberg

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
272cm
Elevation
920–1,830 m
Across
3.8 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 ↗

Gerlosstein / Hainzenberg, in Austria, runs from 920 m at the base to 1,830 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.8 km across, with 11 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 7.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 272 cm of snowfall a season, 608th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 60th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (457 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (200 cm). March still brings 69 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
272cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
200cm
The middle winter of the 12: 240 cm. The best: 457 cm.
World rank
608
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
60
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
125
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,335 m, 6 m below 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
Hochfügen - Zillertal9.5 km285 cm545
Zillertal Arena9.7 km289 cm526
Mayrhofen Hippach10.0 km285 cm545
Skilift Floiten Ginzling14.0 km295 cm500
Spieljoch - Fügen15.0 km202 cm1135

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
11
Run length
7.8km
Lifts
6
Vertical
910m
Top 1,830 m · base 920 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map2.0 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13°

Which way the slopes face

North 55%
East 10%
South 2%
West 33%

65% 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 4 · 1.8 km
Intermediate 6 · 5.4 km
Advanced 1 · 0.6 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift2
  • Magic carpet2
  • T-bar1
  • Cable car1

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 91% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 69 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

67cm
Dec
76cm
Jan
62cm
Feb
69cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 272 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 200 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 457 cm (2.3 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17.

240
232
200
330
457
266
315
235
240
327
221
204
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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