Sweden

Järabacken

10 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm

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
3°C
Max wind
14 km/h
Elevation
214 m
Across
0.4 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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 Cloudy 0 1 to 4 9
Wed 11 Nov Drizzle 0 4 to 6 14
Thu 12 Nov Snow showers 0 0 to 4 17
Fri 13 Nov Snow showers 0 −2 to 1 27
Sat 14 Nov Cloudy 0 −2 to 6 24
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 2 to 6 23
Mon 16 Nov Cloudy 0 −2 to 5 13

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
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

Järabacken is a ski area in Sweden, at about 214 m. Within 2.5 km of its centre the map shows 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.7 km of piste).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 63 cm of snowfall a season, 2,725th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 57th in Sweden. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (101 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (33 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 22 cm.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
1
Lifts
1
Mapped length
0.7km

By difficulty

Easy 1

Lift types

  • Drag lift1

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

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
63cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
33cm
The middle winter of the 12: 61 cm. The best: 101 cm.
World rank
2725
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
57
of 69 in Sweden
Elevation rank
49
Highest to lowest, of 69 in Sweden. The centre point sits at 214 m, 297 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 55% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Sweden (67%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 12 cm, less than the median of 25 cm.

12cm
Dec
22cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
12cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 63 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 33 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 101 cm (3.1 times as much). For 39% of the 69 ski areas in Sweden the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

97
59
39
101
62
34
56
65
96
71
44
33
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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