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Ski Butternut

5 / 100 Powder Score
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Ski Butternut is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 350 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.1 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 21 marked runs and 10 lifts, totalling about 12 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 77 cm of snowfall a season, 2494th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 25 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
13.8℃
Max wind
34.4km/h
Elevation
350m
Area
2.1km²

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 3/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 26 Sept 0 12.8 / 16.8 27.4
🌧️ 27 Sept 0 12.3 / 16 34.4
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 10.3 / 13.2 32.2
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 10.5 / 15.3 7.4
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 12.1 / 20.1 9.7
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 14.3 / 23.2 13.4
☁️ 2 Oct 0 7.2 / 17.2 20.1

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
21
Run length
12km
Lifts
10
Vertical
285m
Top 538 m · base 253 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.1 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 85%
East 4%
South 0%
West 11%

89% 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

Novice 1
Easy 5
Intermediate 9
Advanced 6

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • Magic carpet5

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.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
77 cm
per season
Range over three winters
42 cm
62–104 cm. The best winter was 1.7x the worst.
World rank
2494
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
404
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
380
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 350 m, 184 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Catamount Mountain Resort13 km76 cm2506
Bousquet Mountain26 km96 cm2249
Mohawk Mountain Ski Area38 km79 cm2478
Jiminy Peak Resort41 km107 cm2085
Notchview45 km110 cm2042

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 23 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

23cm
Dec
27cm
Jan
25cm
Feb
23cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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