🇺🇸 United States

Snowbird

5 / 100 Powder Score

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Snowbird is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 2973–2973 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.8 km². Within 1.2 km of the centre, the map shows 124 marked runs and 7 lifts, totalling about 60 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 298 cm of snowfall a season, 495th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 16 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0.3cm

Temperature

8.5℃

Max wind

34.3km/h

Elevation (est.)

2973–2973m

Area

6.8km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 3/10

Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Snow	Temp	Wind
☁️ 26 Sept	0	4.7 / 12.7	30.8
🌨️ 27 Sept	0.1	4.8 / 12.8	34.3
🌨️ 28 Sept	0.3	3 / 12.2	29.7
🌦️ 29 Sept	0	3.2 / 12.9	12
☀️ 30 Sept	0	3 / 14.8	9.7
☀️ 1 Oct	0	5.9 / 16.5	14.9
☁️ 2 Oct	0	6.2 / 16.8	15.6

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

202

Run length

100km

Lifts

Vertical

975m

Top 3,340 m · base 2,365 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.5 km

Steepest pitch52°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs16.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 51%

East 14%

South 8%

West 27%

65% 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

Novice 1

Easy 19

Intermediate 64

Advanced 70

Expert 43

Other 5

Lift types

Chairlift10
Magic carpet3
Cable car1

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall

298 cm

per season

Range over three winters

126 cm

230–356 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.

World rank

495

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 541 in United States

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,973 m, 2,439 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Alta	2.5 km	298 cm	495
Solitude Mountain Resort	6.4 km	298 cm	495
Brighton Resort	6.5 km	298 cm	495
Park City Mountain Resort	13 km	243 cm	802
Deer Valley Resort	15 km	225 cm	901

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 99% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 70 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

59cm

Dec

71cm

Jan

67cm

Feb

70cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters