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Typical snowfall
368cm
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
617–688 m
Across
0.5 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 ↗
Skiarena Loh Hätzingen, in Switzerland, runs from 617 m at the base to 688 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 2 marked runs and 1 lift (about 0.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 368 cm of snowfall a season, 233rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 24th in Switzerland. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (297 cm), reached 81% of the average. March still brings 90 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
The nearest city of any size is Luzern, about 58 km away in a straight line.
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
368cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
297cm
The middle winter of the 12: 336 cm. The best: 475 cm.
World rank
233
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
24
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
280
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 642 m, 795 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.
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
2
Run length
0.8km
Lifts
1
Vertical
71m
Top 688 m · base 617 m
Run map
EasyLift
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 pitch13°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.4°
Which way the slopes face
North47%
East0%
South0%
West53%
Only 47% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (53%).
The most snow falls in January. March brings 83% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%). In amount, March brings 90 cm, more than the median of 60 cm.
91cmDec
108cmJan
80cmFeb
90cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 368 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 297 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 475 cm (1.6 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.