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Rothwald/Wasenalp

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Rothwald/Wasenalp is a ski area in Switzerland. It sits at about 2,068 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.7 km². Within 1.9 km of the centre, the map shows 17 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 9.2 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 379 cm of snowfall a season, 216th (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. The nearest city of any size is Bern, about 84 km away. 263 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
12.9℃
Max wind
10.2km/h
Elevation
2,068m
Area
2.7km²

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☀️ 27 Sept 0 9.7 / 18.2 10.2
☁️ 28 Sept 0 9.8 / 17.3 15.2
☁️ 29 Sept 0 8.1 / 15.1 10.8
☁️ 30 Sept 0 7.9 / 11.3 8.5
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 6.9 / 10 6.1
☁️ 2 Oct 0 6.5 / 11.3 9.6
☁️ 3 Oct 0 6.1 / 12 10

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
13
Run length
9.2km
Lifts
2
Vertical
505m
Top 2,260 m · base 1,754 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 map2.0 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 61%
East 8%
South 5%
West 26%

69% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 8
Intermediate 4
Advanced 1

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Platter1

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
379 cm
per season
Range over three winters
246 cm
292–538 cm. The best winter was 1.8x the worst.
World rank
216
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
11
of 287 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
38
Highest to lowest, of 287 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 2,068 m, 631 m above 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
Rosswald3.8 km338 cm341
Visperterminen10 km289 cm537
San Domenico di Varzo12 km378 cm218
Staldenried - Gspon12 km336 cm344
Blatten Belalp13 km334 cm349

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 99 cm, more than the median of 62 cm.

97cm
Dec
88cm
Jan
53cm
Feb
99cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 9 winters

Map

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

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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