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Typical snowfall
68cm
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
403–552 m
Across
1.4 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 ↗
Tussey Mountain, in United States, runs from 403 m at the base to 552 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 15 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 68 cm of snowfall a season, 2,677th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 471st in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (94 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (31 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 23 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
68cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
31cm
The middle winter of the 12: 70 cm. The best: 94 cm.
World rank
2677
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
471
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
327
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 423 m, 105 m below 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
15
Run length
3.7km
Lifts
4
Vertical
150m
Top 552 m · base 403 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOtherLift
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 map0.7 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.9°
Which way the slopes face
North75%
East4%
South0%
West21%
79% 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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 52% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 12 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
15cmDec
23cmJan
18cmFeb
12cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 68 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 31 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 94 cm (3.0 times as much).
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.