Austria

Spechtenseelift - Wörschachwald

12 / 100 Powder Score
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Snow 48h
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Next 72h
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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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
5°C
Max wind
7 km/h
Elevation
1,099–1,259 m
Across
0.8 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Showers 0 4 to 6 7
Wed 11 Nov Showers 0 5 to 10 7
Thu 12 Nov Rain 0 5 to 9 5
Fri 13 Nov Snow showers 0 −1 to 8 8
Sat 14 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −3 to 1 8
Sun 15 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −3 to 7 5
Mon 16 Nov Cloudy 0 0 to 9 5

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Spechtenseelift - Wörschachwald, in Austria, runs from 1,099 m at the base to 1,259 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 6 marked runs and 1 lift (about 1.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 233 cm of snowfall a season, 844th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 108th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (426 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (138 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 74 cm.

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
6
Run length
1.9km
Lifts
1
Vertical
160m
Top 1,259 m · base 1,099 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 14%
South 74%
West 12%

Only 14% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (74%).

By difficulty

Intermediate 5 · 1.8 km
Advanced 1 · 0.2 km

Lift types

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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.

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
233cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
138cm
The middle winter of the 12: 236 cm. The best: 426 cm.
World rank
844
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
108
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
163
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,180 m, 161 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
Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf7.7 km344 cm293
Hinterstoder14.0 km305 cm460
Wurzeralm17.0 km227 cm899
Planneralm21.0 km245 cm765
Riesneralm - Donnersbachwald21.0 km241 cm795

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 57% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 42 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.

64cm
Dec
74cm
Jan
53cm
Feb
42cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 233 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 138 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 426 cm (3.1 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

274
230
178
241
426
242
184
269
205
250
157
138
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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