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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
- 834–877 m
- Across
- 0.3 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 Kapellenberg, in Germany, runs from 834 m at the base to 877 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.3 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 97 cm of snowfall a season, 2,406th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 55th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (180 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (49 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 43 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skilift Riedlberg | 21.0 km | 141 cm | 1791 |
| Großer Arber | 27.0 km | 170 cm | 1416 |
| Hohenbogen | 28.0 km | 87 cm | 2510 |
| Samoty | 34.0 km | 162 cm | 1517 |
| DSV Nordic Aktivzentrum Althütte | 37.0 km | 63 cm | 2725 |
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
- T-bar1
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 26% 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 11 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 97 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 49 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 180 cm (3.7 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
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