China

Koktokay Ski Resort

37 / 100 Powder Score
Fair Weather Cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
17cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
8 cm
Temperature
−2°C
Max wind
9 km/h
Elevation
1,864–3,077 m
Across
8.4 km

Updated: 14 Oct 2026, 09:19

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Wed 14 Oct Snow 1 −6 to −1 9
Thu 15 Oct Snow 14 −11 to −3 10
Fri 16 Oct Snow showers 2 −22 to −10 8
Sat 17 Oct Snow 1 −22 to −9 6
Sun 18 Oct Snow 5 −16 to −9 7
Mon 19 Oct Partly cloudy 0 −21 to −9 12
Tue 20 Oct Cloudy 0 −23 to −8 7

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 14/25
Snow quality 11/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

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

Koktokay Ski Resort, in China, runs from 1,864 m at the base to 3,077 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 8.4 km across, with 16 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 28 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 79 cm of snowfall a season, 2,595th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 10th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (132 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (36 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (18 and 13 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.

Marked runs
16
Run length
28km
Lifts
8
Vertical
1,213m
Top 3,077 m · base 1,864 m

Run map

NoviceEasyAdvancedOther 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 map8.1 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 24%
East 2%
South 3%
West 72%

Only 26% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 1.9 km
Easy 9 · 16.9 km
Advanced 5 · 9.1 km
Other 1 · 0.3 km

Lift types

  • Gondola5
  • Chairlift2
  • 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.

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
79cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
36cm
The middle winter of the 12: 79 cm. The best: 132 cm.
World rank
2595
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
10
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
13
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 2,311 m, 1,458 m above the national median.

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 29 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

18cm
Dec
13cm
Jan
19cm
Feb
29cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 79 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 36 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 132 cm (3.7 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China, the leanest winter was the same 2018/19.

71
86
76
84
36
56
81
92
66
132
72
96
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.

Map

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

More places to look

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