No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
- Elevation
- 511–598 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 ↗
Skilift Erzgebirge Skiclub Olbernhau, in Germany, runs from 511 m at the base to 598 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 104 cm of snowfall a season, 2,329th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 52nd in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (200 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (55 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 45 cm.
Below are links to its official live camera.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winterwelt Rehefeld | 27.0 km | 85 cm | 2528 |
| Skilift am Rotterhang | 28.0 km | 111 cm | 2224 |
| Skilift Altenberg | 32.0 km | 94 cm | 2439 |
| Skiverein Sehmatal e.V. Skilift Neudorf | 33.0 km | 111 cm | 2224 |
| Skigebiet Oberwiesenthal | 37.0 km | 111 cm | 2224 |
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
100% 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
Lift types
- Platter1
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
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% 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 16 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 104 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 55 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 200 cm (3.6 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live cameras
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