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Alpensia Resort

Off season

Alpensia Resort is a ski area in South Korea, at about 659 m. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 1 marked run and 9 lifts (about 0.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 45 cm of snowfall a season, 2,845th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 7th in South Korea. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (78 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (29 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (11 and 10 cm on average).

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature
13.5℃
Max wind
7.3km/h
Elevation
659m
Across
1.9km

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
45 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
29 cm
A typical winter: 42 cm. The best: 78 cm.
World rank
2845
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
7
of 15 in South Korea
Elevation rank
6
Highest to lowest, of 15 in South Korea. The centre point sits at 659 m, 65 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Pheonix Park12 km50 cm2817
Yongpyong Resort42 km84 cm2539

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 12 cm, more than the median of 7 cm.

11cm
Dec
10cm
Jan
12cm
Feb
12cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 45 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 29 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 78 cm (2.7 times as much).

78
29
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.

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
1
Run length
0.3km
Lifts
9
Vertical
67m
Top 648 m · base 581 m

Run map

Other Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.3 km
Steepest pitch13°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 88%
East 12%
South 0%
West 0%

100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift7
  • Gondola1
  • 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

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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