Austria

Salzstiegl

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
98cm

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
1,293–1,705 m
Across
1.9 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Salzstiegl, in Austria, runs from 1,293 m at the base to 1,705 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 18 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 9.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 98 cm of snowfall a season, 2,397th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 223rd in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (182 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (46 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (27 and 26 cm on average).

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
98cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
46cm
The middle winter of the 12: 81 cm. The best: 182 cm.
World rank
2397
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
223
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
96
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,455 m, 114 m above 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
Gaberl6.2 km97 cm2406
Schilifte Kleinlobming9.9 km85 cm2528
Schilift Obdach14.0 km98 cmsame grid cell2397
Klippitztörl18.0 km115 cm2167
Rieseralm20.0 km116 cm2148

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
18
Run length
9.7km
Lifts
6
Vertical
411m
Top 1,705 m · base 1,293 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.1 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 34%
East 54%
South 12%
West 0%

88% 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 9 · 4.7 km
Intermediate 6 · 3.6 km
Advanced 2 · 1.3 km
Other 1 · 0.1 km

Lift types

  • T-bar4
  • Platter1
  • Rope tow1

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings 77% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 20 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

27cm
Dec
26cm
Jan
25cm
Feb
20cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 98 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 46 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 182 cm (4.0 times as much).

66
82
46
182
76
73
122
80
154
106
77
117
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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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