Slovakia

Košútka

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
70cm

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
503–719 m
Across
0.9 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.

Košútka, in Slovakia, runs from 503 m at the base to 719 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across, with 5 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 1.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 70 cm of snowfall a season, 2,666th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 70th in Slovakia. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (131 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (32 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 25 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
70cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
32cm
The middle winter of the 12: 68 cm. The best: 131 cm.
World rank
2666
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
70
of 87 in Slovakia
Elevation rank
67
Highest to lowest, of 87 in Slovakia. The centre point sits at 615 m, 170 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
Ski Látky8.2 km83 cm2549
Látky - Prašivá10.0 km83 cm2549
Kokava - Línia15.0 km70 cmsame grid cell2666
Ski Čierny Balog22.0 km81 cm2572
Národné biatlonové centrum Osrblie22.0 km80 cm2583

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
5
Run length
1.3km
Lifts
3
Vertical
216m
Top 719 m · base 503 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate 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 map0.5 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 68%
East 0%
South 0%
West 31%

68% 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 3 · 0.6 km
Intermediate 2 · 0.6 km

Lift types

  • Platter3

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 28% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Slovakia (40%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 7 cm, less than the median of 12 cm.

21cm
Dec
25cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
7cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 70 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 32 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 131 cm (4.1 times as much).

65
37
52
131
76
66
80
74
98
69
32
61
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.

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