Norway

Savalan skisenter

26 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
4cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
1 cm
Temperature
−2°C
Max wind
8 km/h
Elevation
735–933 m
Across
1.2 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Snow 1 −8 to −1 8
Wed 11 Nov Snow 1 −7 to −1 15
Thu 12 Nov Snow 2 −7 to −4 16
Fri 13 Nov Fog 0 −8 to −5 24
Sat 14 Nov Snow 0 −13 to 0 16
Sun 15 Nov Snow 1 −3 to 1 25
Mon 16 Nov Snow 0 −14 to −3 21

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 3/25
Snow quality 11/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Savalan skisenter, in Norway, runs from 735 m at the base to 933 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 3 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 1.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 110 cm of snowfall a season, 2,236th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 127th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (142 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (71 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 34 cm.

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
3
Run length
1.7km
Lifts
5
Vertical
198m
Top 933 m · base 735 m

Run map

Other 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 map0.7 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 71%
South 29%
West 0%

71% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Other 3 · 1.7 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift3
  • Magic carpet2

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.

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
110cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
71cm
The middle winter of the 12: 110 cm. The best: 142 cm.
World rank
2236
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
127
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
30
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 847 m, 292 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
Røros Alpinsenter Hummelfjell41.0 km126 cm2018
Fjellsyn Skisenter41.0 km107 cm2287

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 76% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 26 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

28cm
Dec
34cm
Jan
23cm
Feb
26cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 110 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 71 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 142 cm (2.0 times as much).

88
78
103
116
136
142
93
132
137
96
125
71
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.

Map

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

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