Norway

Hurdal Skisenter

17 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
8cm

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
−2°C
Max wind
4 km/h
Elevation
321–523 m
Across
1.1 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 Snow 0 −5 to 0 4
Wed 11 Nov Snow 1 −2 to 0 3
Thu 12 Nov Snow 6 −2 to 0 19
Fri 13 Nov Snow showers 2 −6 to −1 23
Sat 14 Nov Snow showers 2 −7 to 2 14
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −3 to 4 22
Mon 16 Nov Clear 0 −6 to 0 12

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 1/25
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

Hurdal Skisenter, in Norway, runs from 321 m at the base to 523 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 7 marked runs and 1 lift (about 1.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 166 cm of snowfall a season, 1,457th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 84th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (253 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (104 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 55 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
7
Run length
1.4km
Lifts
1
Vertical
203m
Top 523 m · base 321 m

Run map

NoviceIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.5 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 6%
East 2%
South 0%
West 92%

Only 8% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (92%).

By difficulty

Novice 3 · 0.4 km
Intermediate 2 · 0.6 km
Advanced 2 · 0.5 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift1

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.

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
166cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
104cm
The middle winter of the 12: 157 cm. The best: 253 cm.
World rank
1457
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
84
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
94
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 394 m, 161 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
Lundbybakkene6.5 km169 cm1427
Nannestad Skisenter22.0 km162 cm1517
Lygna skisenter24.0 km127 cm2001

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 64% 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 35 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

42cm
Dec
55cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
35cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 166 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 104 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 253 cm (2.4 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway the leanest winter was 2025/26; here it was a different one.

156
128
104
226
213
157
253
111
196
199
118
132
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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