Hungary

Normafa sípálya

Off season
Official site

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

Typical snowfall
29cm

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
434–464 m
Across
1.0 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 ↗

Normafa sípálya, in Hungary, runs from 434 m at the base to 464 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 5 marked runs (about 0.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 29 cm of snowfall a season, 2,923rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 6th in Hungary. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (73 cm), brought more than 8 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (9 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 11 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
29cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
9cm
The middle winter of the 12: 21 cm. The best: 73 cm.
World rank
2923
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
6
of 7 in Hungary
Elevation rank
3
Highest to lowest, of 7 in Hungary. The centre point sits at 418 m, 3 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
Babos Síklub, Fogarasi Nordica Síiskola12.0 km23 cm2958
Dobogókő Sípálya24.0 km32 cm2909
Nagyvillám Sípálya Visegrád33.0 km30 cm2920
Zebegényi sí- és jégpálya36.0 km33 cm2907

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
5
Run length
0.5km
Vertical
30m
Top 464 m · base 434 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 map0.2 km
Steepest pitch11°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 100%
East 0%
South 0%
West 0%

100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.2 km
Easy 3 · 0.2 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.1 km

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 18% of January’s snowfall.

9cm
Dec
11cm
Jan
7cm
Feb
2cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 29 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 9 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 73 cm (8.1 times as much).

22
9
17
73
36
19
20
20
21
47
15
44
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 ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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