Austria

Puchis Welt in Puchberg

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
131cm

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
767–1,207 m
Across
2.1 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 ↗

Puchis Welt in Puchberg, in Austria, runs from 767 m at the base to 1,207 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.1 km across, with 14 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 6.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 131 cm of snowfall a season, 1,942nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 199th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (227 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (66 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 45 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
131cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
66cm
The middle winter of the 12: 127 cm. The best: 227 cm.
World rank
1942
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
199
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
215
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 908 m, 433 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.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Rohr im Gebirge14.0 km110 cm2236
Unterberg16.0 km110 cm2236
Happylift – Semmering17.0 km111 cm2224
Semmering Hirschenkogel18.0 km111 cm2224
Schmoll Lifte20.0 km108 cm2268

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
14
Run length
6.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
440m
Top 1,207 m · base 767 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 15%
East 79%
South 6%
West 0%

94% 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

Easy 5 · 2.2 km
Intermediate 8 · 4.5 km
Advanced 1 · 0.3 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift1
  • Chairlift1

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 51% 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 23 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

35cm
Dec
45cm
Jan
28cm
Feb
23cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 131 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 66 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 227 cm (3.4 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

128
104
111
160
227
93
135
170
132
124
66
125
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.

Official piste map ↗

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