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Typical snowfall
127cm
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 →
Elevation
287–684 m
Across
5.0 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.
Gunstock Recreation Area, in United States, runs from 287 m at the base to 684 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.0 km across, with 73 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 26 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 127 cm of snowfall a season, 2,001st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 293rd in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (179 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (65 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 35 cm.
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
127cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
65cm
The middle winter of the 12: 125 cm. The best: 179 cm.
World rank
2001
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
293
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
359
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 362 m, 166 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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 77% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 27 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
32cmDec
35cmJan
33cmFeb
27cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 127 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 65 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 179 cm (2.8 times as much).
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.