Canada

Mt Seymour

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
573cm
Elevation
934–1,255 m
Across
2.6 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 ↗

Mt Seymour, in Canada, runs from 934 m at the base to 1,255 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.6 km across, with 71 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 17 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 573 cm of snowfall a season, 52nd of 3,069 worldwide and 6th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (838 cm), brought more than 55 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (15 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (165 and 154 cm on average).

The nearest city of any size is Vancouver, about 17 km away in a straight line.

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
573cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
15cm
The middle winter of the 12: 648 cm. The best: 838 cm.
World rank
52
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
6
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
39
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 1,068 m, 531 m above 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
Grouse Mountain9.5 km631 cm33
Cypress Mountain18.0 km314 cm430

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
71
Run length
17km
Lifts
5
Vertical
321m
Top 1,255 m · base 934 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map1.5 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%
East 22%
South 62%
West 14%

Only 25% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 6 · 1.2 km
Easy 7 · 3.3 km
Intermediate 33 · 8.5 km
Advanced 20 · 3.9 km
Other 5 · 0.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Platter1
  • 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

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 92% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%). In amount, March brings 142 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.

165cm
Dec
154cm
Jan
112cm
Feb
142cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 573 cm, and 3 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 15 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 838 cm (55.9 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15.

15
73
688
838
574
750
793
730
644
611
652
509
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.

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

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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