🇦🇹 Austria

Obertauern

12 / 100 Powder Score
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Obertauern is a ski area in Austria. The terrain spans roughly 1771–1771 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.0 km². Within 3.4 km of the centre, the map shows 473 marked runs and 28 lifts, totalling about 196 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 228 cm of snowfall a season, 886th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 134 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
11.7℃
Max wind
8.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
1771–1771m
Area
6.0km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 27 Sept 0 7.6 / 17.1 8.4
🌤️ 28 Sept 0 9.3 / 17.6 11.3
🌫️ 29 Sept 0 7.6 / 14.9 14.7
☁️ 30 Sept 0 6.9 / 13.2 14.8
☁️ 1 Oct 0 5.7 / 13.9 15.5
☁️ 2 Oct 0 5.2 / 15 7.6
☁️ 3 Oct 0 3.5 / 14.1 10.6

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
260
Run length
87km
Lifts
28
Vertical
669m
Top 2,297 m · base 1,628 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.0 km
Steepest pitch39°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 14%
East 27%
South 35%
West 24%

Only 41% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 1
Easy 148
Intermediate 76
Advanced 11
Expert 1
Other 23

Lift types

  • Chairlift17
  • T-bar2
  • Gondola2
  • Platter2
  • Drag lift2
  • Mixed gondola/chair2
  • 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.

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

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
228 cm
per season
Range over three winters
161 cm
169–330 cm. The best winter was 2.0x the worst.
World rank
886
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
79
of 248 in Austria
Elevation rank
49
Highest to lowest, of 248 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,771 m, 431 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Zauchensee-Flachauwinkl9.2 km236 cm842
Fageralm12 km226 cm895
Ski amadé13 km258 cm687
Reiteralm14 km244 cm793
Fanningberg14 km197 cm1104

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 82% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 59 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

71cm
Dec
72cm
Jan
61cm
Feb
59cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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