- Snow 24h
- 0 cm
- Next 24h
- 0 cm
- Temperature
- 1°C
- Max wind
- 13 km/h
- Elevation
- 690–1,269 m
- Across
- 2.5 km
Updated: 12 Oct 2026, 09:34
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct | Cloudy | 0 | −2 to 4 | 9 |
| Tue 13 Oct | Rain | 0 | 1 to 5 | 32 |
| Wed 14 Oct | Rain | 0 | 3 to 5 | 43 |
| Thu 15 Oct | Rain | 0 | 4 to 8 | 13 |
| Fri 16 Oct | Showers | 0 | 2 to 8 | 11 |
| Sat 17 Oct | Fog | 0 | −1 to 4 | 7 |
| Sun 18 Oct | Drizzle | 0 | −2 to 4 | 8 |
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
Røldal Skisenter, in Norway, runs from 690 m at the base to 1,269 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 22 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 11 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 639 cm of snowfall a season, 28th of 3,069 worldwide and 3rd in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (1,025 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (394 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (179 and 177 cm on average).
The nearest city of any size is Bergen, about 101 km away in a straight line.
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
68% 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
- Platter3
- T-bar2
- Chairlift1
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.
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
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sauda skisenter | 36.0 km | 527 cm | 77 |
| Fjellhaugen skisenter | 37.0 km | 433 cm | 127 |
| Hovden Alpinsenter | 44.0 km | 374 cm | 217 |
| FONNA Glacier Ski Resort | 46.0 km | 783 cm | 1 |
| Gullingen skisenter | 48.0 km | 508 cm | 81 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 71% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 126 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 639 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 394 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 1,025 cm (2.6 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.