Kyrgyzstan

Kashka Suu ski resort

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
171cm
Elevation
1,889–2,260 m
Across
1.7 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 ↗

Kashka Suu ski resort, in Kyrgyzstan, runs from 1,889 m at the base to 2,260 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across, with 13 marked runs and 1 lift (about 5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 171 cm of snowfall a season, 1,407th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in Kyrgyzstan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (257 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (104 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (33 and 26 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
171cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
104cm
The middle winter of the 12: 171 cm. The best: 257 cm.
World rank
1407
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
4
of 12 in Kyrgyzstan
Elevation rank
9
Highest to lowest, of 12 in Kyrgyzstan. The centre point sits at 2,044 m, 25 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
Polytech ski resort1.6 km126 cm2018
Ak Tash ski base2.1 km173 cm1389
Эдельвейс2.3 km173 cm1389
Ski base Chunkurchak9.2 km172 cm1401
Ski Tatyr12.0 km103 cm2336

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
13
Run length
5km
Lifts
1
Vertical
371m
Top 2,260 m · base 1,889 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.0 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 72%
East 2%
South 0%
West 27%

74% 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 9 · 3 km
Intermediate 3 · 1.6 km
Advanced 1 · 0.4 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift1

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 March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 72 cm, more than the median of 59 cm.

33cm
Dec
26cm
Jan
40cm
Feb
72cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 171 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 104 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 257 cm (2.5 times as much). For 50% of the 12 ski areas in Kyrgyzstan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16.

115
104
154
203
121
170
172
257
122
205
181
243
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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