Norway

Sogndal skisenter

Off season

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.

Typical snowfall
401cm
Elevation
487–938 m
Across
1.3 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.

Sogndal skisenter, in Norway, runs from 487 m at the base to 938 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 13 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 401 cm of snowfall a season, 172nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 23rd in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (634 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (179 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (119 and 112 cm on average).

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.

Seasonal snowfall
401cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
179cm
The middle winter of the 12: 402 cm. The best: 634 cm.
World rank
172
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
23
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
53
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 663 m, 108 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Sogn skisenter12.0 km334 cm330

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
13
Run length
12km
Lifts
5
Vertical
452m
Top 938 m · base 487 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.2 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 2%
East 39%
South 53%
West 5%

Only 41% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 4 · 4.3 km
Easy 5 · 4.9 km
Intermediate 3 · 2.2 km
Advanced 1 · 0.9 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift5

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

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 82 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

119cm
Dec
112cm
Jan
87cm
Feb
82cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 401 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 179 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 634 cm (3.5 times as much).

632
469
439
286
293
634
179
414
406
398
391
269
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

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

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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