Austria

Hintertuxer Gletscher

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
277cm
Elevation
1,500–3,245 m
Across
9.4 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 ↗

Hintertuxer Gletscher, in Austria, runs from 1,500 m at the base to 3,245 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 9.4 km across, with 89 marked runs and 22 lifts (about 47 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 277 cm of snowfall a season, 586th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 54th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (452 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (193 cm). March still brings 71 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
277cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
193cm
The middle winter of the 12: 238 cm. The best: 452 cm.
World rank
586
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
54
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
11
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 2,217 m, 876 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
Skilift Floiten Ginzling11.0 km295 cm500
Mayrhofen Hippach13.0 km285 cm545
Bergeralm16.0 km229 cm885
Glungezer20.0 km245 cm765
Serlesbahnen22.0 km213 cm1022

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
89
Run length
47km
Lifts
22
Vertical
1,746m
Top 3,245 m · base 1,500 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 map4.3 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 49%
East 25%
South 6%
West 20%

74% 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 40 · 17.5 km
Intermediate 38 · 25.4 km
Advanced 5 · 2.9 km
Other 6 · 1.2 km

Lift types

  • T-bar7
  • Gondola6
  • Chairlift6
  • Platter1
  • Drag lift1
  • 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 97% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 71 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

71cm
Dec
73cm
Jan
63cm
Feb
71cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 277 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 193 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 452 cm (2.3 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25.

209
218
211
369
452
286
343
237
238
365
193
206
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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