Austria

Koralpe

Off season

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

Typical snowfall

91cm

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: 1,626–2,065 m
Across: 2.9 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 ↗

Koralpe, in Austria, runs from 1,626 m at the base to 2,065 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.9 km across, with 17 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 13 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 91 cm of snowfall a season, 2,469th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 230th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (164 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (46 cm). March still brings 20 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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

91cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

46cm

The middle winter of the 12: 80 cm. The best: 164 cm.

World rank

2469

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

230

of 243 in Austria

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,703 m, 362 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Weinebene	5.8 km	105 cm	2319
Klug Lifte	14.0 km	100 cm	2370
Modriach-Winkel Hoislifte	19.0 km	100 cm	2370
Klippitztörl	26.0 km	115 cm	2167
Salzstiegl	30.0 km	98 cm	2397

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

13km

Lifts

Vertical

439m

Top 2,065 m · base 1,626 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map2.2 km

Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 49%

East 0%

South 5%

West 45%

Only 49% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is north (49%).

By difficulty

Easy 7 · 4.4 km

Intermediate 9 · 7.6 km

Advanced 1 · 0.6 km

Lift types

T-bar3
Drag lift1

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

The most snow falls in January. March brings 83% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 20 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

23cm

Dec

24cm

Jan

24cm

Feb

20cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 91 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 46 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 164 cm (3.6 times as much).

164

132

146

107

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.