Germany

Kirchberglift am Fröbelturm

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall

87cm

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: 766–783 m
Across: 0.2 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 ↗

Kirchberglift am Fröbelturm, in Germany, runs from 766 m at the base to 783 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.2 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 87 cm of snowfall a season, 2,510th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 58th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (131 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (53 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 36 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

87cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

53cm

The middle winter of the 12: 86 cm. The best: 131 cm.

World rank

2510

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

of 75 in Germany

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 75 in Germany. The centre point sits at 757 m, 109 m below the national median.

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

Run length

0.1km

Lifts

Vertical

17m

Top 783 m · base 766 m

Run map

Easy Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.1 km

Steepest pitch10°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs8°

Which way the slopes face

North 39%

East 0%

South 0%

West 61%

Only 39% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (61%).

By difficulty

Easy 1 · 0.1 km

Lift types

Drag lift1

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 36% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Germany (47%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 13 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.

18cm

Dec

36cm

Jan

19cm

Feb

13cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 87 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 53 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 131 cm (2.5 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

131

109

128

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