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Typical snowfall
88cm
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
308–402 m
Across
1.1 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 ↗
Norway Mountain Ski Resort, in United States, runs from 308 m at the base to 402 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 24 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 7.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 88 cm of snowfall a season, 2,500th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 406th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (124 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (46 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (25 and 21 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
88cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
46cm
The middle winter of the 12: 83 cm. The best: 124 cm.
World rank
2500
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
406
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
358
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 364 m, 164 m below 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 December. March brings 95% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 20 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
25cmDec
21cmJan
22cmFeb
20cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 88 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 46 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 124 cm (2.7 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.