Aspen Mountain is a ski area in United States, on slopes between roughly 3,123 and 3,123 m. Its mapped area is about 5.2 km across, with 138 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 59 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 194 cm of snowfall a season, 1,201st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 95th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (271 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (133 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (52 and 42 cm on average).
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Snow 48h
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Temperature
9.7℃
Max wind
19.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
3123–3123m
Across
5.2km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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 ↗
Score breakdown
Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 7 Oct | 0 | 6 / 17.2 | 29.4 |
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 4.7 / 15.6 | 24.2 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 4.5 / 15.2 | 17.7 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | 3.6 / 12.4 | 13.1 |
| 🌦️ 11 Oct | 0 | 3.8 / 12.4 | 11.7 |
| 🌨️ 12 Oct | 0.1 | 3.2 / 12.3 | 11.9 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | 1.9 / 13.9 | 12.7 |
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
138
Run length
59km
Lifts
5
Vertical
1,005m
Top 3,431 m · base 2,426 m
Run map
IntermediateAdvancedExpert Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map3.5 km
Steepest pitch42°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs16.5°
Which way the slopes face
North 52%
East 37%
South 1%
West 11%
89% 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
Intermediate 56
Advanced 38
Expert 44
Lift types
- Chairlift4
- Gondola1
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.
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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
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
194 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
133 cm
A typical winter: 184 cm. The best: 271 cm.
World rank
1201
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
95
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
18
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,123 m, 2,595 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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Highlands | 4.1 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
| Buttermilk | 5.3 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Aspen Snowmass | 12 km | 172 cm | 1401 |
| Crested Butte Mountain Resort | 32 km | 240 cm | 800 |
| Spring Gulch Trail System | 47 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
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 53 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
52cmDec
42cmJan
48cmFeb
53cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 194 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 133 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 271 cm (2.0 times as much).
271
133
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
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 39.1652, -106.8194
More places to look
Guides covering United States
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.
- Niseko vs Whistler: Whistler Is the Outlier, Vail Is the Rule Whistler is the world's 29th snowiest ski area. Vail is 1,335th — and 288 Japanese ski areas get more snow than the resort that defines American skiing.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52