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Sandia Peak Ski Area

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Sandia Peak Ski Area is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 2,877 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 67 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 26 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 48 cm of snowfall a season, 2833rd (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. 1 other ski area lies within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h

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Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

12℃

Max wind

16.3km/h

Elevation

2,877m

Area

2.6km²

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	Temp	Wind
☁️ 26 Sept	7.3 / 14.7	22.7
☁️ 27 Sept	8.6 / 17.3	16.3
🌧️ 28 Sept	8.2 / 16.7	23.2
🌧️ 29 Sept	6.8 / 10.3	14.9
🌧️ 30 Sept	4.3 / 7.7	15
🌧️ 1 Oct	3.9 / 9.2	11.9
☀️ 2 Oct	2.1 / 12.5	10.9

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

Run length

25km

Lifts

Vertical

487m

Top 3,133 m · base 2,646 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.8 km

Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs11.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 22%

East 77%

South 1%

West 1%

99% 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

Novice 11

Easy 18

Intermediate 24

Advanced 13

Lift types

Chairlift3
Cable car2
Drag lift1

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

48 cm

per season

Range over three winters

56 cm

28–84 cm. The best winter was 3.0x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.

World rank

2833

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

515

of 541 in United States

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,877 m, 2,343 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, 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.

10cm

Dec

18cm

Jan

15cm

Feb

12cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters