Lebanon

Mzaar Kfardebian Ski Resort

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
222cm

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
1,848–2,435 m
Across
5.9 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.

Mzaar Kfardebian Ski Resort, in Lebanon, runs from 1,848 m at the base to 2,435 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.9 km across, with 28 marked runs and 20 lifts (about 28 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 222 cm of snowfall a season, 934th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Lebanon. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (399 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (67 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 98 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
222cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
67cm
The middle winter of the 12: 215 cm. The best: 399 cm.
World rank
934
of 3,069 worldwide

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
Zaarour Club8.6 km122 cm2067
The Cedars Ski Resort36.0 km221 cm945

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
28
Run length
28km
Lifts
20
Vertical
588m
Top 2,435 m · base 1,848 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 pitch33°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 68%
East 7%
South 2%
West 24%

75% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 4 · 2.5 km
Easy 15 · 15.3 km
Intermediate 9 · 9.9 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift15
  • Drag lift5

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 43% of January’s snowfall.

29cm
Dec
98cm
Jan
52cm
Feb
42cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 222 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 67 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 399 cm (6.0 times as much).

119
67
231
223
374
358
213
399
217
121
140
201
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.

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