Austria

Simonhöhe

Off season

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

Typical snowfall

95cm

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: 1,046–1,338 m
Across: 2.9 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 ↗

Simonhöhe, in Austria, runs from 1,046 m at the base to 1,338 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.9 km across, with 9 marked runs and 10 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 95 cm of snowfall a season, 2,424th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 229th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (190 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (41 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (28 and 23 cm on average).

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

95cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

41cm

The middle winter of the 12: 90 cm. The best: 190 cm.

World rank

2424

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

229

of 243 in Austria

Elevation rank

129

Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,325 m, 16 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
Hochrindl	17.0 km	145 cm	1729
Gerlitzen Alpe	21.0 km	118 cm	2117
Flattnitz	22.0 km	160 cm	1541
Heidialm	28.0 km	177 cm	1348
Turracher Höhe	28.0 km	191 cm	1235

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

6.6km

Lifts

Vertical

292m

Top 1,338 m · base 1,046 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate 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 map2.0 km

Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs9.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 45%

East 15%

South 6%

West 34%

60% 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 5 · 4.1 km

Intermediate 4 · 2.5 km

Lift types

T-bar6
Platter2
Rope tow1
Magic carpet1

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 December. March brings 78% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 18 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

28cm

Dec

23cm

Jan

26cm

Feb

18cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 95 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 41 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 190 cm (4.6 times as much).

190

164

108

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.