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Typical snowfall
97cm
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
1,984 m
Across
1.6 km
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
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.
Snobowl Bike and Ski area is a ski area in United States, at about 1,984 m. Within 2.5 km of its centre the map shows 1 marked run and 2 lifts (about 2.5 km of piste).
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 379th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (161 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (37 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (28 and 24 cm on average).
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
97cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
37cm
The middle winter of the 12: 92 cm. The best: 161 cm.
World rank
2406
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
379
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
126
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 1,984 m, 1,456 m above the national median.
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Marked runs
1
Lifts
2
Mapped length
2.5km
Lift types
Chairlift1
Rope tow1
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 25 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
28cmDec
24cmJan
20cmFeb
25cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 97 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 37 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 161 cm (4.4 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.