Switzerland

Jaunpass

Off season

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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.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Jaun4.4 km255 cm692
Schwarzsee7.8 km234 cm832
Schönried - Saanenmöser - Zweisimmen - St. Stephan8.5 km279 cm576
Rossberg - Oberwil8.5 km210 cm1057
Rellerli – Schönried10.0 km318 cm408

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
9
Run length
4.7km
Lifts
2
Vertical
201m
Top 1,606 m · base 1,405 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.0 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 2%
East 71%
South 27%
West 0%

73% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Easy 7 · 3 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.8 km
Advanced 1 · 0.8 km

Lift types

  • T-bar2

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 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.

72cm
Dec
90cm
Jan
62cm
Feb
69cm
Mar
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).

285
315
196
444
300
305
353
273
259
289
255
242
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.

Live cameras

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

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

Map

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

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