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Typical snowfall
52cm
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 →
Elevation
235–411 m
Across
2.5 km
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.
Roundtop Mountain Resort, in United States, runs from 235 m at the base to 411 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 29 marked runs and 9 lifts (about 7.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 52 cm of snowfall a season, 2,808th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 514th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (83 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (17 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 18 cm.
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
52cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
17cm
The middle winter of the 12: 60 cm. The best: 83 cm.
World rank
2808
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
514
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
426
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 295 m, 233 m below the national median.
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
29
Run length
7.5km
Lifts
9
Vertical
176m
Top 411 m · base 235 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertOtherLift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.7 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.6°
Which way the slopes face
North81%
East15%
South1%
West4%
96% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 67% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 12 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
7cmDec
18cmJan
15cmFeb
12cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 52 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 17 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 83 cm (4.9 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.