Austria

Sillian - Hochpustertal

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
180cm
Elevation
1,080–2,399 m
Across
5.4 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 ↗

Sillian - Hochpustertal, in Austria, runs from 1,080 m at the base to 2,399 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.4 km across, with 30 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 24 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 180 cm of snowfall a season, 1,320th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 177th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (381 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (77 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (54 and 39 cm on average).

Below are links to its official live camera.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
180cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
77cm
The middle winter of the 12: 155 cm. The best: 381 cm.
World rank
1320
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
177
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
35
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,921 m, 580 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
Kartitsch / St. Oswald7.4 km190 cm1240
Drei Zinnen - Tre Cime13.0 km181 cm1309
Brunnalm / St. Jakob15.0 km216 cm988
Val Comelico - Padola15.0 km172 cm1401
Golzentipp/Obertilliach17.0 km194 cm1201

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
30
Run length
24km
Lifts
7
Vertical
1,319m
Top 2,399 m · base 1,080 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.6 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 14%
East 65%
South 20%
West 0%

79% 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

Easy 12 · 8.3 km
Intermediate 15 · 13.3 km
Advanced 2 · 1.4 km
Other 1 · 0.5 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Gondola2
  • J-bar1
  • T-bar1

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

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 44 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.

54cm
Dec
39cm
Jan
44cm
Feb
44cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 180 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 77 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 381 cm (4.9 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17.

157
234
77
225
198
153
381
101
134
265
127
112
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 ↗

More places to look

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