Big White Ski Resort is a ski area in Canada, on slopes between roughly 2,032 and 2,032 m. Its mapped area is about 7.0 km across, with 114 marked runs and 16 lifts (about 96 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 206 cm of snowfall a season, 1,092nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 32nd in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (278 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (125 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (59 and 47 cm on average).
Below is a link to its official live camera.
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
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 7 Oct | 0 | 3.6 / 11.1 | 19.3 |
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 5.5 / 11.5 | 19.2 |
| 🌨️ 9 Oct | 5.9 | -2.1 / 7 | 34.2 |
| ❄️ 10 Oct | 1.9 | -6.1 / -2.4 | 8.9 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | -7 / 1.9 | 8.4 |
| ☁️ 12 Oct | 0 | -7.7 / 4.5 | 10.1 |
| 🌨️ 13 Oct | 5 | -3.8 / -2.5 | 8.1 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 12% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift10
- Magic carpet3
- T-bar1
- Gondola1
- Rope tow1
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
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 54 cm, more than the median of 32 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 206 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 125 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 278 cm (2.2 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
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 ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52