Austria

Hochrindl

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
145cm
Elevation
1,465–1,838 m
Across
4.7 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 ↗

Hochrindl, in Austria, runs from 1,465 m at the base to 1,838 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.7 km across, with 23 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 145 cm of snowfall a season, 1,729th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 196th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (253 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (60 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (41 and 32 cm on average).

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
145cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
60cm
The middle winter of the 12: 134 cm. The best: 253 cm.
World rank
1729
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
196
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
67
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,645 m, 304 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
Flattnitz9.4 km160 cm1541
Turracher Höhe11.0 km191 cm1235
Heidialm12.0 km177 cm1348
Bad Kleinkirchheim16.0 km142 cm1775
Simonhöhe17.0 km95 cm2424

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
23
Run length
12km
Lifts
7
Vertical
373m
Top 1,838 m · base 1,465 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 map1.5 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 47%
East 23%
South 26%
West 4%

70% 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 11 · 3.1 km
Intermediate 10 · 6.4 km
Advanced 2 · 2.9 km

Lift types

  • T-bar4
  • Platter1
  • 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 as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 33 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

41cm
Dec
32cm
Jan
40cm
Feb
33cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 145 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 60 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 253 cm (4.2 times as much).

60
121
67
241
165
136
253
115
151
178
132
121
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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