Austria

Schilift Freistadt

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall

64cm

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: 589–676 m
Across: 0.5 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Schilift Freistadt, in Austria, runs from 589 m at the base to 676 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 64 cm of snowfall a season, 2,717th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 239th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (108 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (32 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 26 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

64cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

32cm

The middle winter of the 12: 66 cm. The best: 108 cm.

World rank

2717

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

239

of 243 in Austria

Elevation rank

237

Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 661 m, 680 m below 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Viehberg	12.0 km	97 cm	2406
Sternsteinlifte	16.0 km	90 cm	2478
Kirchschlag	18.0 km	85 cm	2528
Aichelberglifte Karlstift	22.0 km	97 cm	2406
Ski areál Lipno-Kramolín	24.0 km	83 cm	2549

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

0.5km

Lifts

Vertical

87m

Top 676 m · base 589 m

Run map

Easy Lift

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 map0.5 km

Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs11°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%

East 100%

South 0%

West 0%

100% 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 1 · 0.5 km

Lift types

Drag lift1

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 January. March brings 27% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 7 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

17cm

Dec

26cm

Jan

14cm

Feb

7cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 64 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 32 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 108 cm (3.4 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

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