Germany

Skilift Wurmstein

Off season

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

Typical snowfall

82cm

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: 596–725 m
Across: 0.6 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 Wurmstein, in Germany, runs from 596 m at the base to 725 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.6 km across, with 3 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 82 cm of snowfall a season, 2,562nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 62nd in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (134 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (52 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 37 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

82cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

52cm

The middle winter of the 12: 70 cm. The best: 134 cm.

World rank

2562

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 675 m, 191 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.

Ski area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Ski und Snowboardzentrum Fahrenberg	7.9 km	81 cm	2572
Sandskigebiet Monte Kaolino	36.0 km	49 cm	2823
Snowhill Mariánské Lázně	37.0 km	73 cm	2638

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

1.3km

Lifts

Vertical

129m

Top 725 m · base 596 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 map0.7 km

Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs11.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 59%

East 4%

South 0%

West 37%

63% 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

Novice 1 · 0.1 km

Easy 1 · 0.7 km

Intermediate 1 · 0.5 km

Lift types

Rope tow1
Drag lift1

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 27% 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 10 cm, less than the median of 27 cm.

18cm

Dec

37cm

Jan

16cm

Feb

10cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 82 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 52 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 134 cm (2.6 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

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