Austria

Schladming Dachstein

Off season
Official site

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

Typical snowfall
299cm

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
724–2,004 m
Across
29 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 ↗

Schladming Dachstein, in Austria, runs from 724 m at the base to 2,004 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 29 km across, with 327 marked runs and 73 lifts (about 179 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 299 cm of snowfall a season, 484th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 34th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (532 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (199 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 86 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
299cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
199cm
The middle winter of the 12: 286 cm. The best: 532 cm.
World rank
484
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
34
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
232
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 796 m, 545 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Planai & Hochwurzen2.3 km299 cmsame grid cell484
Horsefeathers Superpark Planai3.1 km281 cm566
Hauser Kaibling5.6 km299 cmsame grid cell484
Ramsau am Dachstein5.8 km307 cm454
Reiteralm7.8 km289 cm526

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
327
Run length
179km
Lifts
73
Vertical
1,281m
Top 2,004 m · base 724 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map4.4 km
Steepest pitch36°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 53%
East 23%
South 6%
West 19%

76% 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

Novice 8 · 1.2 km
Easy 201 · 94.1 km
Intermediate 97 · 73.6 km
Advanced 14 · 8.4 km
Other 7 · 2 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift21
  • T-bar13
  • Gondola13
  • Platter11
  • Magic carpet8
  • Rope tow2
  • Mixed gondola/chair2
  • Cable car1
  • Drag lift1
  • Funicular1

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 68 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

76cm
Dec
86cm
Jan
71cm
Feb
68cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 299 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 199 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 532 cm (2.7 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

286
236
252
318
532
313
264
312
285
368
220
199
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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

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