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Typical snowfall
117cm
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
Elevation
1,804–2,129 m
Across
2.2 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.
Terry Peak Ski Area, in United States, runs from 1,804 m at the base to 2,129 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.2 km across, with 28 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 15 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 117 cm of snowfall a season, 2,129th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 323rd in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (161 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (77 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (31 and 26 cm on average).
How much snow it gets
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
117cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
77cm
The middle winter of the 12: 111 cm. The best: 161 cm.
World rank
2129
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
323
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
124
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,002 m, 1,474 m above the national median.
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
28
Run length
15km
Lifts
5
Vertical
326m
Top 2,129 m · base 1,804 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvancedLift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.5 km
Steepest pitch38°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.6°
Which way the slopes face
North55%
East43%
South1%
West1%
98% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 33 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
31cmDec
26cmJan
26cmFeb
33cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 117 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 77 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 161 cm (2.1 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.