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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
- 691 m
- Across
- 2.3 km
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
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 ↗
Pfänder is a ski area in Austria, at about 691 m. Its mapped area is about 2.3 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 121 cm of snowfall a season, 2,077th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 204th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (184 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (59 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 48 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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hagenberg Sulzberg-Thal | 10.0 km | 169 cm | 1427 |
| Bödele | 11.0 km | 252 cm | 712 |
| Hochlitten-Riefensberg | 16.0 km | 254 cm | 701 |
| Niedere Andelsbuch-Bezau | 17.0 km | 265 cm | 643 |
| Hochhäderich | 17.0 km | 323 cm | 390 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Cable car1
- Drag lift1
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in January. March brings 35% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 17 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 121 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 59 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 184 cm (3.1 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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