Switzerland

Wilern

Off season

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Typical snowfall
322cm

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
1,432–1,529 m
Across
0.5 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.

Wilern, in Switzerland, runs from 1,432 m at the base to 1,529 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 2 marked runs and 1 lift (about 0.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 322 cm of snowfall a season, 393rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 57th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (588 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (175 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (79 and 79 cm on average).

The nearest city of any size is Luzern, about 77 km away in a straight line.

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
322cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
175cm
The middle winter of the 12: 285 cm. The best: 588 cm.
World rank
393
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
57
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
129
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,473 m, 36 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
Alpe Devero8.0 km322 cmsame grid cell393
Bellwald9.1 km325 cm383
Aletsch Arena9.5 km316 cm423
Rosswald11.0 km308 cm453
San Domenico di Varzo12.0 km322 cmsame grid cell393

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
0.7km
Lifts
1
Vertical
97m
Top 1,529 m · base 1,432 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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.3 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 60%
East 0%
South 0%
West 40%

60% 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.

By difficulty

Easy 2 · 0.7 km

Lift types

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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 March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 102 cm, more than the median of 60 cm.

79cm
Dec
79cm
Jan
63cm
Feb
102cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 322 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 175 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 588 cm (3.4 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

278
263
274
588
248
349
341
175
220
525
291
317
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.

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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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