China

Songhua Lake Ski Resort

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
32cm

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
320–899 m
Across
4.2 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.

Songhua Lake Ski Resort, in China, runs from 320 m at the base to 899 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.2 km across, with 44 marked runs and 14 lifts (about 32 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 32 cm of snowfall a season, 2,909th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 56th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (44 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (18 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (8 and 7 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
32cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
18cm
The middle winter of the 12: 32 cm. The best: 44 cm.
World rank
2909
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
56
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
113
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 503 m, 350 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
五家山滑雪场12.0 km34 cm2904
吉林北山四季越野滑雪场20.0 km29 cm2923
铭山绿洲滑雪场24.0 km32 cmsame grid cell2909
Beidahu Ski Resort29.0 km43 cm2863
吉雪滑雪场30.0 km27 cm2932

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
44
Run length
32km
Lifts
14
Vertical
579m
Top 899 m · base 320 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map3.7 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 74%
East 21%
South 0%
West 4%

95% 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

Easy 14 · 10.2 km
Intermediate 18 · 13.9 km
Advanced 8 · 7 km
Other 4 · 1.1 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet8
  • Chairlift5
  • Gondola1

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 March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 9 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

8cm
Dec
7cm
Jan
8cm
Feb
9cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 32 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 18 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 44 cm (2.4 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China the leanest winter was 2018/19; here it was a different one.

41
30
44
36
20
43
34
34
18
28
27
29
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.

Map

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

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