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Rothenthurm

12 / 100 Powder Score
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Rothenthurm is a ski area in Switzerland. It sits at about 1,136 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.8 km². Within 1.6 km of the centre, the map shows 3 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 5.1 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 158 cm of snowfall a season, 1475th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 253 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
15.3℃
Max wind
7.2km/h
Elevation
1,136m
Area
1.8km²

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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 10.7 / 21.2 7.2
☁️ 28 Sept 0 12.7 / 21.3 6.8
☁️ 29 Sept 0 11.9 / 20.8 8.1
☁️ 30 Sept 0 13.9 / 21.3 8.4
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 12.3 / 14.3 4.4
🌫️ 2 Oct 0 11.5 / 15.6 7.3
☁️ 3 Oct 0 10.7 / 16.9 8

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Biberegg”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
3
Run length
5.1km
Lifts
1
Vertical
367m
Top 1,321 m · base 954 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.2 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 22%
East 0%
South 3%
West 75%

Only 22% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 1
Intermediate 1
Advanced 1

Lift types

  • T-bar1

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 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
158 cm
per season
Range over three winters
43 cm
139–182 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
1475
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
224
of 287 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
221
Highest to lowest, of 287 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,136 m, 301 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Sattel-Hochstuckli3.2 km158 cm1475
Brunni-Haggenegg4.4 km250 cm750
Skilift Brunni5.5 km250 cm750
Raten5.9 km133 cm1772
Brunni-Holzegg-Rotenflue6.5 km297 cm503

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 59% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Switzerland (79%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 38 cm, less than the median of 62 cm.

48cm
Dec
64cm
Jan
43cm
Feb
38cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 8 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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