Norway

Stordalen skisenter

Off season
Official site

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
500cm
Elevation
496–641 m
Across
0.8 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Stordalen skisenter, in Norway, runs from 496 m at the base to 641 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 6 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 3.1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 500 cm of snowfall a season, 84th of 3,069 worldwide and 11th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (839 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (278 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 144 cm.

The nearest city of any size is Bergen, about 65 km away in a straight line. Below are links to its official live camera.

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
500cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
278cm
The middle winter of the 12: 501 cm. The best: 839 cm.
World rank
84
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
11
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
63
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 584 m, 29 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
Myrkdalen44.0 km595 cm43

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
3.1km
Lifts
2
Vertical
145m
Top 641 m · base 496 m

Run map

Other 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 map0.8 km
Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 37%
East 60%
South 0%
West 2%

97% 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

Other 6 · 3.1 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift2

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 January. March brings 76% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 109 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

120cm
Dec
144cm
Jan
128cm
Feb
109cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 500 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 278 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 839 cm (3.0 times as much).

772
430
516
503
350
839
278
604
571
499
345
296
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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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