Norway

Høgås alpinsenter

16 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
11cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
0°C
Max wind
5 km/h
Elevation
100–235 m
Across
0.7 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Drizzle 0 −1 to 1 5
Wed 11 Nov Cloudy 0 0 to 1 5
Thu 12 Nov Snow showers 11 0 to 1 23
Fri 13 Nov Snow showers 0 −5 to 1 21
Sat 14 Nov Fog 0 −7 to 4 21
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 0 to 6 23
Mon 16 Nov Clear 0 −4 to 1 16

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Høgås alpinsenter, in Norway, runs from 100 m at the base to 235 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 2 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 0.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 136 cm of snowfall a season, 1,860th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 110th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (222 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (56 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 50 cm.

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
2
Run length
0.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
135m
Top 235 m · base 100 m

Run map

Other 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 map0.6 km
Steepest pitch16°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 0%
South 97%
West 3%

Only 0% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (97%).

By difficulty

Other 2 · 0.9 km

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Platter1

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.

Live cameras

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

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

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

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
136cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
56cm
The middle winter of the 12: 145 cm. The best: 222 cm.
World rank
1860
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
110
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
124
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 181 m, 374 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
Stillerud akebakke18.0 km143 cm1761
Gjerpenkollen hoppbakke22.0 km159 cm1553
Siljan skisenter41.0 km151 cm1652
Ellingsrudkollen41.0 km100 cm2370

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 30 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

27cm
Dec
50cm
Jan
29cm
Feb
30cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 136 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 56 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 222 cm (4.0 times as much).

153
137
61
222
198
79
164
70
179
202
113
56
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.

Map

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

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