🇨🇦 Canada

Lake Louise Ski Area

19 / 100 Powder Score
Thin 🌤️

Lake Louise Ski Area is a ski area in Canada. The terrain spans roughly 2322–2322 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.5 km². Within 3.6 km of the centre, the map shows 168 marked runs and 14 lifts, totalling about 103 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 157 cm of snowfall a season, 1490th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 4 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0.1cm
Temperature
-3.5℃
Max wind
22.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
2322–2322m
Area
6.5km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 11/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 -4.2 / 0.3 25.1
☁️ 27 Sept 0 -8.9 / 3.3 13.3
☁️ 28 Sept 0 -5.9 / 5.6 12.3
🌨️ 29 Sept 1.9 -3.4 / 0.6 10.7
🌨️ 30 Sept 0.4 -2 / 0.9 8.4
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 0.5 / 2.7 9.2
❄️ 2 Oct 0.3 -1.6 / 2.7 7.1

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
118
Run length
80km
Lifts
13
Vertical
995m
Top 2,643 m · base 1,647 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.5 km
Steepest pitch38°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 13%
East 20%
South 35%
West 32%

Only 33% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 2
Easy 25
Intermediate 30
Advanced 58
Other 3

Lift types

  • Chairlift9
  • Magic carpet3
  • Gondola1

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 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
157 cm
per season
Range over three winters
105 cm
116–221 cm. The best winter was 1.9x the worst.
World rank
1490
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
54
of 172 in Canada
Elevation rank
1
Highest to lowest, of 172 in Canada. The centre point sits at 2,322 m, 1,785 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Banff Sunshine Village49 km133 cm1772

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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