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Typical snowfall
194cm
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
1,700 m
Across
2.1 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.
Soldier Hollow is a ski area in United States, at about 1,700 m. Its mapped area is about 2.1 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 194 cm of snowfall a season, 1,201st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 90th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (357 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2017/18 (95 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (54 and 52 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
194cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
95cm
The middle winter of the 12: 191 cm. The best: 357 cm.
World rank
1201
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
90
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
149
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 1,700 m, 1,172 m above 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.
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
0
Lifts
1
Lift types
Magic carpet1
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 87% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 45 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
54cmDec
52cmJan
43cmFeb
45cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 194 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2017/18 with 95 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 357 cm (3.8 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.