- Snow 24h
- 0 cm
- Next 24h
- 0 cm
- Temperature
- 0°C
- Max wind
- 21 km/h
- Elevation
- 1,262–2,424 m
- Across
- 5.3 km
Updated: 15 Oct 2026, 08:51
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 ↗
7-day outlook
| Date | Weather | Snow (cm) | Low / high (°C) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 14 Oct | Partly cloudy | 0 | −2 to 5 | 26 |
| Thu 15 Oct | Cloudy | 0 | −4 to 9 | 10 |
| Fri 16 Oct | Cloudy | 0 | 0 to 11 | 10 |
| Sat 17 Oct | Snow showers | 2 | −5 to 4 | 18 |
| Sun 18 Oct | Cloudy | 0 | −6 to 2 | 10 |
| Mon 19 Oct | Cloudy | 0 | −3 to 1 | 7 |
| Tue 20 Oct | Snow | 0 | −4 to 1 | 7 |
Score breakdown
The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure
Kicking Horse Resort, in Canada, runs from 1,262 m at the base to 2,424 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.3 km across, with 58 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 46 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 152 cm of snowfall a season, 1,636th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 79th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (230 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (92 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (46 and 33 cm on average).
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
97% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Gondola1
- Magic carpet1
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.
Live cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 37 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 152 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 92 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 230 cm (2.5 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.