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Typical snowfall
139cm
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
2,161–2,858 m
Across
4.7 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.
Red Lodge Mountain, in United States, runs from 2,161 m at the base to 2,858 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.7 km across, with 58 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 34 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 139 cm of snowfall a season, 1,816th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 237th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (197 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (79 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (32 and 25 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.
Seasonal snowfall
139cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
79cm
The middle winter of the 12: 146 cm. The best: 197 cm.
World rank
1816
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
237
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
67
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,591 m, 2,063 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.
The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 44 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
32cmDec
25cmJan
40cmFeb
44cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 139 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 79 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 197 cm (2.5 times as much).
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.