Austria

Kals-Matrei

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
236cm
Elevation
928–2,422 m
Across
8.4 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 ↗

Kals-Matrei, in Austria, runs from 928 m at the base to 2,422 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 8.4 km across, with 81 marked runs and 15 lifts (about 45 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 236 cm of snowfall a season, 816th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 104th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (410 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (146 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (67 and 60 cm on average).

Below are links to its official live camera.

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
236cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
146cm
The middle winter of the 12: 220 cm. The best: 410 cm.
World rank
816
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
104
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
27
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,983 m, 642 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
Weißsee Gletscherwelt16.0 km329 cm360
Brunnalm / St. Jakob21.0 km216 cm988
Lienz - Zettersfeld21.0 km214 cm1008
Lienzer Bergbahnen21.0 km183 cm1294
Großglockner Heiligenblut22.0 km301 cm476

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
81
Run length
45km
Lifts
15
Vertical
1,494m
Top 2,422 m · base 928 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map5.5 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 22%
East 33%
South 16%
West 28%

55% 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 36 · 19.9 km
Intermediate 24 · 16.6 km
Advanced 11 · 7.6 km
Other 10 · 1.1 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • Gondola3
  • Platter3
  • Magic carpet2
  • T-bar1
  • Funicular1

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 December. March brings 93% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 56 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.

67cm
Dec
60cm
Jan
54cm
Feb
56cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 236 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 146 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 410 cm (2.8 times as much).

225
250
155
285
342
214
410
173
173
293
164
146
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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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