Canada

Mont Lyall

11 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
1cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
2°C
Max wind
17 km/h
Elevation
514 m
Across
3.5 km

Updated: 14 Oct 2026, 09:19

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 13 Oct Cloudy 0 −5 to 5 12
Wed 14 Oct Snow 0 −1 to 4 17
Thu 15 Oct Snow 0 −3 to 3 29
Fri 16 Oct Snow 7 −4 to 3 10
Sat 17 Oct Snow showers 16 −6 to 0 32
Sun 18 Oct Snow showers 6 −11 to −4 29
Mon 19 Oct Cloudy 0 −15 to 0 9

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Mont Lyall is a ski area in Canada, at about 514 m. Within 1.9 km of its centre the map shows 14 marked runs (about 6.2 km of piste).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 228 cm of snowfall a season, 893rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 20th in Canada. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (174 cm), reached 76% of the average. March is usually the snowiest month, with about 61 cm.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 1.9 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
14
Mapped length
6.2km

By difficulty

Advanced 2
Expert 3

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
228cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
174cm
The middle winter of the 12: 222 cm. The best: 296 cm.
World rank
893
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
20
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
90
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 514 m, 23 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
Mont Vallières-de-Saint-Réal3.8 km228 cmsame grid cell893
Cuve de l'Aigle22.0 km270 cm618
Cuves de la Mine24.0 km270 cm618
Mont Porphyre47.0 km220 cm953
Station de ski Mont Miller47.0 km220 cm953

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 61 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.

57cm
Dec
60cm
Jan
51cm
Feb
61cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 228 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 174 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 296 cm (1.7 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15.

174
220
270
286
243
203
220
296
231
179
223
188
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.

More places to look

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