Lebanon

Zaarour Club

Off season

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

Typical snowfall

122cm

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: 1,654–1,986 m
Across: 2.5 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Zaarour Club, in Lebanon, runs from 1,654 m at the base to 1,986 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 10 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 122 cm of snowfall a season, 2,067th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 3rd in Lebanon. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (265 cm), brought more than 8 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (31 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 60 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

122cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

31cm

The middle winter of the 12: 106 cm. The best: 265 cm.

World rank

2067

of 3,069 worldwide

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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Mzaar Kfardebian Ski Resort	8.6 km	222 cm	934
The Cedars Ski Resort	45.0 km	221 cm	945

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

Run length

4km

Lifts

Vertical

332m

Top 1,986 m · base 1,654 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateOther Lift

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 map1.3 km

Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs15.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 76%

East 1%

South 0%

West 23%

77% 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

Novice 2 · 0.2 km

Easy 3 · 2 km

Intermediate 4 · 1.7 km

Other 1 · 0.1 km

Lift types

Chairlift4
Magic carpet2

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 33% of January’s snowfall.

10cm

Dec

60cm

Jan

32cm

Feb

20cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 122 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 31 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 265 cm (8.5 times as much).

145

224

165

106

265

122

106

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.