United Kingdom

The Snow Centre Hemel Hempstead

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
11cm

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
112–138 m
Across
0.3 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 ↗

The Snow Centre Hemel Hempstead, in United Kingdom, runs from 112 m at the base to 138 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.3 km across, with 2 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 0.2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 11 cm of snowfall a season, 3,032nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in the United Kingdom. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (43 cm), brought more than 21 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (2 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 4 cm.

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
11cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
2cm
The middle winter of the 12: 9 cm. The best: 43 cm.
World rank
3032
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
5
of 9 in United Kingdom
Elevation rank
4
Highest to lowest, of 9 in United Kingdom. The centre point sits at 134 m, 54 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
InPiste12.0 km10 cm3039

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
2
Run length
0.2km
Lifts
4
Vertical
27m
Top 138 m · base 112 m

Run map

Easy Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
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 map0.1 km
Steepest pitch12°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 0%
South 100%
West 0%

Only 0% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (100%).

By difficulty

Easy 2 · 0.2 km

Lift types

  • Platter2
  • Magic carpet2

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

The most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall.

2cm
Dec
4cm
Jan
2cm
Feb
3cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 11 cm, and 9 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 2 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 43 cm (21.5 times as much). For 33% of the 9 ski areas in the United Kingdom the leanest winter was 2024/25; here it was a different one.

6
3
7
43
10
3
14
2
13
8
10
9
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.

Official piste map ↗

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