Germany

Skigebiet Ochsenkopf

Off season

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

Typical snowfall

107cm

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: 639–1,012 m
Across: 4.2 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 ↗

Skigebiet Ochsenkopf, in Germany, runs from 639 m at the base to 1,012 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.2 km across, with 10 marked runs and 10 lifts (about 6.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 107 cm of snowfall a season, 2,287th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 51st in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (197 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (60 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 48 cm.

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

107cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

60cm

The middle winter of the 12: 88 cm. The best: 197 cm.

World rank

2287

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

of 75 in Germany

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 75 in Germany. The centre point sits at 991 m, 125 m above the national median.

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

6.5km

Lifts

Vertical

373m

Top 1,012 m · base 639 m

Run map

EasyOther 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 map1.9 km

Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs8.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 50%

East 2%

South 41%

West 8%

52% 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 8 · 5.3 km

Other 2 · 1.1 km

Lift types

Drag lift7
Gondola2
Rope tow1

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 January. March brings 31% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Germany (47%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 15 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.

23cm

Dec

48cm

Jan

21cm

Feb

15cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 107 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 60 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 197 cm (3.3 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

197

164

116

131

144