Canada

Mount Cain Alpine Park

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
434cm
Elevation
1,190–1,616 m
Across
1.7 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 ↗

Mount Cain Alpine Park, in Canada, runs from 1,190 m at the base to 1,616 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across, with 25 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 14 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 434 cm of snowfall a season, 126th of 3,069 worldwide and 9th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (606 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (174 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (131 and 119 cm on average).

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
434cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
174cm
The middle winter of the 12: 432 cm. The best: 606 cm.
World rank
126
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
9
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
24
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 1,365 m, 828 m above the national median.

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
25
Run length
14km
Lifts
3
Vertical
426m
Top 1,616 m · base 1,190 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map1.4 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 0%
South 62%
West 38%

Only 0% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 7 · 4.1 km
Intermediate 9 · 5.1 km
Advanced 9 · 4.4 km

Lift types

  • T-bar2
  • Rope tow1

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

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Canada (79%). In amount, March brings 102 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.

131cm
Dec
119cm
Jan
83cm
Feb
102cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 434 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 174 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 606 cm (3.5 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

174
541
476
449
483
566
606
377
414
361
373
390
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.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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