Finland

Pyhätunturi - Luosto

15 / 100 Powder Score
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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
12 km/h
Elevation
194–489 m
Across
35 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)
Tue 10 Nov Snow 0 −4 to 1 12
Wed 11 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −8 to −4 12
Thu 12 Nov Cloudy 0 −9 to −4 10
Fri 13 Nov Snow 0 −9 to −4 19
Sat 14 Nov Snow 5 −7 to −1 24
Sun 15 Nov Snow showers 5 −8 to 1 20
Mon 16 Nov Snow showers 4 −12 to 1 25

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 1/25
Snow quality 4/20
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

Pyhätunturi - Luosto, in Finland, runs from 194 m at the base to 489 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 35 km across, with 52 marked runs and 13 lifts (about 22 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 119 cm of snowfall a season, 2,097th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 11th in Finland. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2016/17 (93 cm), reached 78% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (36 and 30 cm on average).

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Pyhätunturi - Luosto”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
52
Run length
22km
Lifts
13
Vertical
295m
Top 489 m · base 194 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.6 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 34%
East 55%
South 7%
West 3%

89% 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

Novice 4 · 1.4 km
Easy 15 · 8.6 km
Intermediate 7 · 3.4 km
Advanced 4 · 2 km
Other 22 · 6.6 km

Lift types

  • T-bar5
  • Platter3
  • Chairlift3
  • Drag lift1
  • 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.

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
119cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
93cm
The middle winter of the 12: 114 cm. The best: 172 cm.
World rank
2097
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
11
of 52 in Finland
Elevation rank
23
Highest to lowest, of 52 in Finland. The centre point sits at 216 m, 66 m above 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
Hiihtokeskus Luosto-Ski9.3 km116 cm2148
Pyhä Ski Resort11.0 km120 cm2091
Kommatti40.0 km112 cm2208

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings 90% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Finland (80%). In amount, March brings 27 cm, more than the median of 23 cm.

36cm
Dec
30cm
Jan
26cm
Feb
27cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 119 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 93 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 172 cm (1.8 times as much). For 67% of the 52 ski areas in Finland the leanest winter was 2025/26; here it was a different one.

138
118
93
96
146
172
100
106
129
106
113
114
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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