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Typical snowfall
293cm
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
1,405–1,606 m
Across
1.6 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.
Jaunpass, in Switzerland, runs from 1,405 m at the base to 1,606 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 9 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 4.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 293 cm of snowfall a season, 507th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 96th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (444 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (196 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 90 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
293cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
196cm
The middle winter of the 12: 287 cm. The best: 444 cm.
World rank
507
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
96
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
120
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,510 m, 73 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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 77% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%). In amount, March brings 69 cm, more than the median of 60 cm.
72cmDec
90cmJan
62cmFeb
69cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 293 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 196 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 444 cm (2.3 times as much).
Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.