Qipanshan Ski Resort
No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
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
- 99–155 m
- Across
- 1.1 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.
Qipanshan Ski Resort, in China, runs from 99 m at the base to 155 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 5 marked runs (about 2.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 22 cm of snowfall a season, 2,963rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 93rd in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (35 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (9 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (5 and 5 cm on average).
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.
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 43% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (57%).
By difficulty
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 5 cm, less than the median of 6 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 22 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 9 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 35 cm (3.9 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China the leanest winter was 2018/19; here it was a different one.
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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