Norway

Sunnfjord skisenter

Off season

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
357cm
Elevation
481 m
Across
1.3 km

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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.

Sunnfjord skisenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 481 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 357 cm of snowfall a season, 268th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 36th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (901 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (133 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 102 cm.

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
357cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
133cm
The middle winter of the 12: 321 cm. The best: 901 cm.
World rank
268
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
36
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
82
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 481 m, 74 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
Jølster Skisenter19.0 km499 cm85

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
3

Lift types

  • Drag lift3

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 65% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 66 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

94cm
Dec
102cm
Jan
94cm
Feb
66cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 357 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 133 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 901 cm (6.8 times as much).

901
472
313
282
204
431
133
414
382
328
208
210
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

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

Map

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

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