Kyrgyzstan

Ski base "Orlovka"

12 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Official site
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
2cm

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
9°C
Max wind
18 km/h
Elevation
1,384 m
Across
1.8 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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 ↗

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Drizzle 0 7 to 16 18
Wed 11 Nov Snow showers 2 −1 to 7 15
Thu 12 Nov Drizzle 0 −3 to 1 4
Fri 13 Nov Cloudy 0 −2 to 5 7
Sat 14 Nov Fog 0 −4 to 7 7
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −2 to 5 6
Mon 16 Nov Cloudy 0 −3 to 6 8

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 2/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
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

Ski base "Orlovka" is a ski area in Kyrgyzstan, at about 1,384 m. Its mapped area is about 1.8 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 65 cm of snowfall a season, 2,704th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 12th in Kyrgyzstan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (90 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (34 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (14 and 11 cm on average).

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
3

Lift types

  • Chairlift3

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

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
65cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
34cm
The middle winter of the 12: 66 cm. The best: 90 cm.
World rank
2704
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
12
of 12 in Kyrgyzstan
Elevation rank
12
Highest to lowest, of 12 in Kyrgyzstan. The centre point sits at 1,384 m, 685 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 22 cm, less than the median of 59 cm.

14cm
Dec
11cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
22cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 65 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 34 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 90 cm (2.6 times as much). For 50% of the 12 ski areas in Kyrgyzstan the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

73
56
67
56
50
65
55
90
34
73
66
89
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.

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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