Austria

Kaiserau

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
198cm
Elevation
1,133–1,369 m
Across
2.2 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 ↗

Kaiserau, in Austria, runs from 1,133 m at the base to 1,369 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.2 km across, with 9 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 3.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 198 cm of snowfall a season, 1,164th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 163rd in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (337 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (112 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 62 cm.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
198cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
112cm
The middle winter of the 12: 209 cm. The best: 337 cm.
World rank
1164
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
163
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
176
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,121 m, 220 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
Hohentauern11.0 km219 cm966
Wurzeralm19.0 km227 cm899
Planneralm25.0 km245 cm765
Eisenerzer Ramsau27.0 km211 cm1048
Hinterstoder29.0 km305 cm460

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
3.4km
Lifts
5
Vertical
236m
Top 1,369 m · base 1,133 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 map1.3 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 28%
East 0%
South 6%
West 67%

Only 28% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 3 · 0.1 km
Easy 5 · 2.4 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.9 km

Lift types

  • T-bar2
  • Magic carpet2
  • Platter1

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

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 38 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

50cm
Dec
62cm
Jan
49cm
Feb
38cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 198 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 112 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 337 cm (3.0 times as much).

205
169
138
217
337
213
195
231
220
214
130
112
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.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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