Norway

Valdres Alpinsenter

20 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
10cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
2 cm
Temperature
−2°C
Max wind
9 km/h
Elevation
703–1,045 m
Across
1.9 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Snow 1 −6 to 0 9
Wed 11 Nov Snow 1 −5 to −1 6
Thu 12 Nov Snow 8 −7 to −3 11
Fri 13 Nov Cloudy 0 −13 to −6 11
Sat 14 Nov Fog 0 −13 to −3 8
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −11 to 2 8
Mon 16 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −15 to −6 7

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 4/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Valdres Alpinsenter, in Norway, runs from 703 m at the base to 1,045 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 11 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 7.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 136 cm of snowfall a season, 1,860th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 112th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (184 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (74 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 41 cm.

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
11
Run length
7.6km
Lifts
5
Vertical
342m
Top 1,045 m · base 703 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
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 map1.9 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 6%
East 0%
South 14%
West 80%

Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (80%).

By difficulty

Novice 3 · 3.5 km
Easy 3 · 1.9 km
Intermediate 3 · 1.4 km
Other 2 · 0.7 km

Lift types

  • T-bar2
  • Drag lift2
  • Magic carpet1

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.

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

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
136cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
74cm
The middle winter of the 12: 147 cm. The best: 184 cm.
World rank
1860
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
112
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
18
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 919 m, 364 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
Stavadalen skisenter11.0 km151 cm1652
Brattstølen Skisenter15.0 km137 cm1843
Gamlestølen18.0 km156 cm1588
Skagahøgdi skisenter38.0 km118 cm2117
Beitostølen Skisenter45.0 km185 cm1281

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 30 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

36cm
Dec
41cm
Jan
29cm
Feb
30cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 136 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 74 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 184 cm (2.5 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway the leanest winter was 2025/26; here it was a different one.

144
150
74
169
171
136
184
88
155
150
116
96
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.

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