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Alvares Ski Complex

Off season

Alvares Ski Complex is a ski area in Iran, at about 3,122 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 1.2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 198 cm of snowfall a season, 1,164th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 12th in Iran. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (320 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (101 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 64 cm.

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

Temperature
7℃
Max wind
18.1km/h
Elevation
3,122m
Across
1.3km

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
198 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
101 cm
A typical winter: 182 cm. The best: 320 cm.
World rank
1164
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
12
of 22 in Iran
Elevation rank
2
Highest to lowest, of 22 in Iran. The centre point sits at 3,122 m, 442 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.

41cm
Dec
49cm
Jan
44cm
Feb
64cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 198 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 101 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 320 cm (3.2 times as much).

101
320
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
1.2km
Lifts
1
Vertical
145m
Top 3,196 m · base 3,051 m

Run map

Easy 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 map1.2 km
Steepest pitch13°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 73%
South 27%
West 0%

73% 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

Easy 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift1

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.

Map

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

Nearby resorts

No other resorts on file within 120km.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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