Austria

Maiskogel

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
205cm

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
765–3,024 m
Across
4.3 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 ↗

Maiskogel, in Austria, runs from 765 m at the base to 3,024 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.3 km across, with 81 marked runs and 22 lifts (about 46 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 205 cm of snowfall a season, 1,105th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 150th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (364 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (118 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 66 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
205cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
118cm
The middle winter of the 12: 205 cm. The best: 364 cm.
World rank
1105
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
150
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
192
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,060 m, 281 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
Kitzsteinhorn7.5 km333 cm333
Schmittenhöhe Zell am See7.6 km260 cm667
Weißsee Gletscherwelt16.0 km329 cm360
Skicircus Saalbach-Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn17.0 km234 cm832
Raurisertal18.0 km276 cm589

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Kaprun - Kitzsteinhorn/Maiskogel”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
81
Run length
46km
Lifts
22
Vertical
2,259m
Top 3,024 m · base 765 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedFreeride 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 map2.2 km
Steepest pitch40°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 53%
East 43%
South 1%
West 3%

96% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 5 · 1.7 km
Easy 38 · 16.5 km
Intermediate 22 · 13.2 km
Advanced 9 · 6.6 km
Freeride 5 · 7.4 km
Other 2 · 0.7 km

Lift types

  • Gondola6
  • Chairlift6
  • T-bar4
  • Platter2
  • Cable car1
  • Funicular1
  • Mixed gondola/chair1
  • 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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 40 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

50cm
Dec
66cm
Jan
49cm
Feb
40cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 205 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 118 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 364 cm (3.1 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

252
245
140
241
364
207
202
207
157
186
118
137
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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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