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Sunday River

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Sunday River is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 618–618 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.2 km². Within 3.5 km of the centre, the map shows 151 marked runs and 20 lifts, totalling about 88 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 161 cm of snowfall a season, 1439th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 50 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Temperature
10.9℃
Max wind
19.1km/h
Elevation (est.)
618–618m
Area
6.2km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 26 Sept 0 9.7 / 17.9 22.2
🌧️ 27 Sept 0 9.7 / 12.1 19.1
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 7.3 / 10.7 18
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 8.3 / 11.5 3.5
☁️ 30 Sept 0 9.9 / 18.7 7.1
☁️ 1 Oct 0 12.2 / 19.9 10.8
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 4.9 / 15.1 22.7

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
146
Run length
86km
Lifts
20
Vertical
706m
Top 955 m · base 249 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 55%
East 39%
South 2%
West 5%

94% 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 56
Intermediate 44
Advanced 23
Expert 20
Freeride 2
Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift15
  • Magic carpet3
  • T-bar1
  • Mixed gondola/chair1

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 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
161 cm
per season
Range over three winters
70 cm
132–202 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
1439
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
157
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
247
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 618 m, 84 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Carter's XC Ski7.8 km148 cm1597
Inland Woods and Trails12 km141 cm1685
Mount Abram17 km132 cm1780
Black Mountain of Maine24 km129 cm1815
Milan Hill State Park30 km147 cm1618

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 82% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 40 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

41cm
Dec
49cm
Jan
42cm
Feb
40cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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