Norway

Strandafjellet skisenter

12 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
5°C
Max wind
9 km/h
Elevation
447–1,139 m
Across
2.5 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 Partly cloudy 0 2 to 9 9
Tue 13 Oct Rain 0 3 to 11 24
Wed 14 Oct Drizzle 0 4 to 9 22
Thu 15 Oct Showers 0 6 to 10 20
Fri 16 Oct Snow showers 1 3 to 7 7
Sat 17 Oct Drizzle 0 1 to 5 8
Sun 18 Oct Drizzle 0 3 to 7 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

Strandafjellet skisenter, in Norway, runs from 447 m at the base to 1,139 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 24 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 21 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 385 cm of snowfall a season, 200th of 3,069 worldwide and 29th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (570 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (155 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (108 and 104 cm on average).

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
24
Run length
21km
Lifts
7
Vertical
692m
Top 1,139 m · base 447 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map3.3 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 12%
East 50%
South 35%
West 4%

62% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 13 · 11.1 km
Easy 2 · 3.1 km
Intermediate 8 · 5.5 km
Advanced 1 · 1.1 km

Lift types

  • T-bar2
  • Platter2
  • Chairlift1
  • Mixed gondola/chair1
  • 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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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
385cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
155cm
The middle winter of the 12: 397 cm. The best: 570 cm.
World rank
200
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
29
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
85
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 465 m, 90 m below 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
Sunnmørsalpane Skiarena Fjellseter7.0 km468 cm99
Lilleåsen skitrekk19.0 km395 cm183
Stordal alpinsenter23.0 km455 cm106
Ørskogfjell skisenter28.0 km360 cm254
Spjelkavikheisa30.0 km201 cm1140

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 81% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 84 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

108cm
Dec
104cm
Jan
88cm
Feb
84cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 385 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 155 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 570 cm (3.7 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.

509
357
414
343
423
570
205
516
439
304
379
155
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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