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Typical snowfall
251cm
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
925–2,114 m
Across
4.6 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.
Nara – Leontica, in Switzerland, runs from 925 m at the base to 2,114 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.6 km across, with 19 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 13 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 251 cm of snowfall a season, 729th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 147th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (467 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (110 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (58 and 58 cm on average).
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
251cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
110cm
The middle winter of the 12: 223 cm. The best: 467 cm.
World rank
729
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
147
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
135
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,458 m, 21 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.
The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 80 cm, more than the median of 60 cm.
58cmDec
58cmJan
55cmFeb
80cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 251 cm, and 9 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 110 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 467 cm (4.2 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.