Austria

Hochlecken

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
162cm
Elevation
769–1,076 m
Across
1.4 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 ↗

Hochlecken, in Austria, runs from 769 m at the base to 1,076 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 14 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 4.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 162 cm of snowfall a season, 1,517th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 188th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (334 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (78 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 64 cm.

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
162cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
78cm
The middle winter of the 12: 155 cm. The best: 334 cm.
World rank
1517
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
188
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
219
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 880 m, 461 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
Feuerkogel9.3 km311 cm441
Skilift Kronberg11.0 km99 cm2386
Loser-Altaussee23.0 km309 cm451
Skiregion Dachstein West34.0 km284 cm549
Freesports Arena Dachstein Krippenstein35.0 km283 cm554

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
14
Run length
4.4km
Lifts
5
Vertical
308m
Top 1,076 m · base 769 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.4 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 33%
East 60%
South 5%
West 2%

93% 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

Novice 2 · 0.1 km
Easy 9 · 2.2 km
Intermediate 2 · 1.4 km
Advanced 1 · 0.7 km

Lift types

  • T-bar3
  • Magic carpet2

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 38% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 24 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

39cm
Dec
64cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
24cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 162 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 78 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 334 cm (4.3 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25.

231
179
126
206
334
116
163
177
147
92
78
90
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

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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