Norway

Ringkollen alpinbakke

17 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
9cm

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
−1°C
Max wind
4 km/h
Elevation
550 m
Across
0.6 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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 4
Wed 11 Nov Snow 0 −3 to 0 7
Thu 12 Nov Snow 9 −3 to −1 20
Fri 13 Nov Snow 0 −8 to −2 21
Sat 14 Nov Cloudy 0 −9 to 1 16
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −5 to 3 19
Mon 16 Nov Fog 0 −8 to −2 7

Score breakdown

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

Ringkollen alpinbakke is a ski area in Norway, at about 550 m. Its mapped area is about 0.6 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 156 cm of snowfall a season, 1,588th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 92nd in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (226 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (88 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 52 cm.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
2

Lift types

  • Drag lift1
  • Platter1

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

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
156cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
88cm
The middle winter of the 12: 158 cm. The best: 226 cm.
World rank
1588
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
92
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
69
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 550 m, 5 m below 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
Skimore Oslo24.0 km150 cm1665
Holmenkollen National Ski Arena27.0 km150 cm1665
Modum skisenter30.0 km133 cm1909
Oslo Skisenter33.0 km107 cm2287
Ringerudsetra skitrekk34.0 km182 cm1298

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 65% 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 34 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

36cm
Dec
52cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
34cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 156 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 88 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 226 cm (2.6 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway the leanest winter was 2025/26; here it was a different one.

173
141
90
193
196
142
226
88
198
197
124
102
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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