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
- 3°C
- Max wind
- 8 km/h
- Elevation
- 1,674–2,804 m
- Across
- 3.8 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. Snow report on the official site ↗
7-day outlook
| Date | Weather | Snow (cm) | Low / high (°C) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 10 Nov | Showers | 0 | 2 to 3 | 12 |
| Wed 11 Nov | Cloudy | 0 | 2 to 6 | 8 |
| Thu 12 Nov | Snow | 3 | 0 to 3 | 13 |
| Fri 13 Nov | Snow | 11 | −5 to 0 | 13 |
| Sat 14 Nov | Fog | 0 | −9 to 0 | 12 |
| Sun 15 Nov | Cloudy | 0 | −1 to 3 | 20 |
| Mon 16 Nov | Rain | 0 | 1 to 4 | 22 |
Score breakdown
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
Rifflsee, in Austria, runs from 1,674 m at the base to 2,804 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.8 km across, with 34 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 17 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 263 cm of snowfall a season, 657th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 74th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (425 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (180 cm). March still brings 64 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
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
72% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Platter2
- Gondola1
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.
Live cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitztaler Gletscher | 3.8 km | 240 cm | 800 |
| Sölden | 8.5 km | 242 cm | 787 |
| Vent | 12.0 km | 221 cm | 945 |
| Kaunertaler Gletscher | 15.0 km | 204 cm | 1117 |
| Fendels | 16.0 km | 243 cm | 780 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in January. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 263 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 180 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 425 cm (2.4 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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