Norway

Renåfjellet alpinsenter

26 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
5cm

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
1 cm
Temperature
−3°C
Max wind
7 km/h
Elevation
639–857 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)
Tue 10 Nov Snow 1 −8 to −1 7
Wed 11 Nov Snow 2 −5 to −2 7
Thu 12 Nov Snow showers 2 −5 to −3 17
Fri 13 Nov Snow 0 −7 to −5 21
Sat 14 Nov Cloudy 0 −11 to 0 16
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −9 to 0 23
Mon 16 Nov Clear 0 −13 to −7 7

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 3/25
Snow quality 11/20
Wind 10/10
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

Renåfjellet alpinsenter, in Norway, runs from 639 m at the base to 857 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 5 marked runs and 1 lift (about 4.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 105 cm of snowfall a season, 2,319th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 130th in Norway. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2016/17 (71 cm), reached 68% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 33 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
5
Run length
4.7km
Lifts
1
Vertical
218m
Top 857 m · base 639 m

Run map

Other 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 map1.4 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 68%
East 9%
South 1%
West 22%

77% 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

Other 5 · 4.7 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift1

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
105cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
71cm
The middle winter of the 12: 110 cm. The best: 131 cm.
World rank
2319
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
130
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
43
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 738 m, 183 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
Engerdal Østfjell36.0 km115 cm2167
Furutangen skisenter46.0 km130 cm1954

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 67% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 22 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

29cm
Dec
33cm
Jan
22cm
Feb
22cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 105 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 71 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 131 cm (1.8 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway the leanest winter was 2025/26; here it was a different one.

131
112
71
121
121
113
108
80
112
104
81
104
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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