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Typical snowfall
134cm
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
258–379 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.
Lyndon Outing Club, in United States, runs from 258 m at the base to 379 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across, with 14 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 4.1 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 134 cm of snowfall a season, 1,892nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 256th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (160 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (75 cm). March still brings 31 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
134cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
75cm
The middle winter of the 12: 138 cm. The best: 160 cm.
World rank
1892
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
256
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
403
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 313 m, 215 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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall.
33cmDec
36cmJan
33cmFeb
31cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 134 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 75 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 160 cm (2.1 times as much).
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.