Norway

Stordal alpinsenter

12 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
3°C
Max wind
8 km/h
Elevation
394–792 m
Across
1.2 km

Updated: 12 Oct 2026, 09:34

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)
Mon 12 Oct Cloudy 0 0 to 8 7
Tue 13 Oct Rain 0 3 to 10 33
Wed 14 Oct Rain 0 3 to 7 16
Thu 15 Oct Showers 0 4 to 8 16
Fri 16 Oct Snow showers 1 1 to 5 5
Sat 17 Oct Snow showers 3 −1 to 2 4
Sun 18 Oct Drizzle 0 1 to 4 12

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

Stordal alpinsenter, in Norway, runs from 394 m at the base to 792 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 5 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 4.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 455 cm of snowfall a season, 106th of 3,069 worldwide and 18th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (729 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (242 cm). March still brings 107 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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
5
Run length
4.7km
Lifts
4
Vertical
398m
Top 792 m · base 394 m

Run map

NoviceIntermediate 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 map2.3 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 14%
East 69%
South 18%
West 0%

83% 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 2 · 2.6 km
Intermediate 3 · 2 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift2
  • T-bar1
  • Magic carpet1

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.

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
455cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
242cm
The middle winter of the 12: 465 cm. The best: 729 cm.
World rank
106
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
18
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
60
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 625 m, 70 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
Lilleåsen skitrekk17.0 km395 cm183
Ørskogfjell skisenter18.0 km360 cm254
Strandafjellet skisenter23.0 km385 cm200
Sunnmørsalpane Skiarena Fjellseter24.0 km468 cm99
Rauma skisenter32.0 km393 cm186

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 107 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

121cm
Dec
124cm
Jan
103cm
Feb
107cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 455 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 242 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 729 cm (3.0 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

358
280
497
439
575
729
284
607
549
411
491
242
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.

More places to look

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