Germany

Hohenbogen

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall

87cm

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 →

Elevation: 655–1,049 m
Across: 1.8 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 ↗

Hohenbogen, in Germany, runs from 655 m at the base to 1,049 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.8 km across, with 13 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 87 cm of snowfall a season, 2,510th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 59th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (162 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (46 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 39 cm.

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

87cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

46cm

The middle winter of the 12: 75 cm. The best: 162 cm.

World rank

2510

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

of 75 in Germany

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 75 in Germany. The centre point sits at 820 m, 46 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
DSV Nordic Aktivzentrum Althütte	17.0 km	63 cm	2725
Skilift Riedlberg	18.0 km	141 cm	1791
Großer Arber	19.0 km	170 cm	1416
Samoty	24.0 km	162 cm	1517
Skilift Kapellenberg	28.0 km	97 cm	2406

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

Run length

6km

Lifts

Vertical

394m

Top 1,049 m · base 655 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km

Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs14.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 67%

East 31%

South 0%

West 2%

98% 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

Easy 6 · 1.8 km

Intermediate 5 · 3.3 km

Advanced 2 · 0.9 km

Lift types

Drag lift1
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

The most snow falls in January. March brings 26% 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 10 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.

20cm

Dec

39cm

Jan

19cm

Feb

10cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 87 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 46 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 162 cm (3.5 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

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