Austria

Großglockner Heiligenblut

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
301cm
Elevation
1,235–2,905 m
Across
7.2 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 ↗

Großglockner Heiligenblut, in Austria, runs from 1,235 m at the base to 2,905 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 7.2 km across, with 36 marked runs and 13 lifts (about 24 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 301 cm of snowfall a season, 476th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 31st in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (486 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (208 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (82 and 78 cm on average).

The nearest city of any size is Salzburg, about 85 km away in a straight line. 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
301cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
208cm
The middle winter of the 12: 270 cm. The best: 486 cm.
World rank
476
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
31
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
41
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,849 m, 508 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
Mölltaler Gletscher11.0 km297 cm490
Sportgastein16.0 km284 cm549
Ski Gastein - Stubnerkogel/Schlossalm19.0 km255 cm692
Raurisertal20.0 km276 cm589
Weißsee Gletscherwelt21.0 km329 cm360

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
36
Run length
24km
Lifts
13
Vertical
1,670m
Top 2,905 m · base 1,235 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
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 map2.0 km
Steepest pitch35°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 4%
East 6%
South 41%
West 48%

Only 10% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.1 km
Easy 12 · 10 km
Intermediate 20 · 13.8 km
Advanced 1 · 0.3 km
Other 2

Lift types

  • T-bar3
  • Gondola3
  • Cable car3
  • Platter2
  • Rope tow1
  • Chairlift1

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 December. March brings 90% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 70 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

82cm
Dec
78cm
Jan
72cm
Feb
70cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 301 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 208 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 486 cm (2.3 times as much).

230
257
214
380
486
303
398
271
268
378
219
208
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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