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
0 cm
Temperature
6°C
Max wind
14 km/h
Elevation
197–377 m
Across
1.1 km
Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15
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.
7-day outlook
Date
Weather
Snow (cm)
Low / high (°C)
Wind (km/h)
Mon 9 Nov
Cloudy
0
4 to 11
17
Tue 10 Nov
Drizzle
0
3 to 10
14
Wed 11 Nov
Cloudy
0
1 to 6
15
Thu 12 Nov
Rain
0
2 to 5
11
Fri 13 Nov
Rain
0
2 to 5
10
Sat 14 Nov
Snow showers
2
0 to 3
13
Sun 15 Nov
Cloudy
0
−1 to 4
17
Score breakdown
Fresh (48h)0/40
Forecast (24h)0/25
Snow quality0/20
Wind8/10
Base2/5
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 Quechee, in United States, runs from 197 m at the base to 377 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 21 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 4.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 127 cm of snowfall a season, 2,001st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 290th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (173 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (59 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 36 cm.
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
4.5km
Lifts
3
Vertical
179m
Top 377 m · base 197 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvancedLift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.5 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.1°
Which way the slopes face
North0%
East10%
South89%
West0%
Only 10% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (89%).
The most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 27 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
30cmDec
36cmJan
34cmFeb
27cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 127 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 59 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 173 cm (2.9 times as much).
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.