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.
- Elevation
- 408–495 m
- Across
- 0.4 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 ↗
Hesselbacher Gletscher, in Germany, runs from 408 m at the base to 495 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 4 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 0.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 71 cm of snowfall a season, 2,656th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 65th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (118 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (34 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 30 cm.
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.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skihang Dautphetal-Holzhausen | 13.0 km | 47 cm | 2837 |
| Skiliftkarussell Winterberg | 36.0 km | 92 cm | 2461 |
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
96% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Lift types
- T-bar1
- 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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 37% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Germany (47%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 11 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 71 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 34 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 118 cm (3.5 times as much).
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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