Canada

Poley Mountain Ski Area

10 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
2°C
Max wind
15 km/h
Elevation
86–283 m
Across
1.5 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Mon 9 Nov Cloudy 0 3 to 8 20
Tue 10 Nov Drizzle 0 0 to 5 15
Wed 11 Nov Rain 0 −1 to 4 15
Thu 12 Nov Cloudy 0 −2 to 6 11
Fri 13 Nov Snow 4 1 to 2 21
Sat 14 Nov Snow 1 1 to 1 16
Sun 15 Nov Snow 2 1 to 2 18

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Poley Mountain Ski Area, in Canada, runs from 86 m at the base to 283 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 38 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 13 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 189 cm of snowfall a season, 1,248th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 47th in Canada. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2019/20 (135 cm), reached 71% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 56 cm.

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
38
Run length
13km
Lifts
5
Vertical
197m
Top 283 m · base 86 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map1.7 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 70%
East 4%
South 1%
West 25%

74% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 4 · 0.4 km
Easy 16 · 7 km
Intermediate 7 · 2.1 km
Advanced 10 · 3.2 km
Other 1 · 0.2 km

Lift types

  • Platter2
  • Chairlift2
  • 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

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
189cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
135cm
The middle winter of the 12: 179 cm. The best: 261 cm.
World rank
1248
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
47
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
153
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 208 m, 329 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Canada (79%). In amount, March brings 44 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.

38cm
Dec
56cm
Jan
52cm
Feb
44cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 189 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 135 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 261 cm (1.9 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada the leanest winter was 2014/15; here it was a different one.

261
170
202
230
180
135
143
252
218
139
177
166
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.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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