Breckenridge is a ski area in United States, on slopes between roughly 3,334 and 3,334 m. Its mapped area is about 8.1 km across, with 146 marked runs and 35 lifts (about 111 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 146 cm of snowfall a season, 1,714th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 219th in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (113 cm), reached 77% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (34 and 33 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
8℃
Max wind
26.8km/h
Elevation (est.)
3334–3334m
Across
8.1km
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 ↗
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
146 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
113 cm
A typical winter: 145 cm. The best: 192 cm.
World rank
1714
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
219
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
10
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,334 m, 2,806 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Mountain | 7.1 km | 157 cm | 1578 |
| Keystone | 17 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Ski Cooper | 22 km | 146 cm | 1714 |
| Arapahoe Basin | 25 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| Loveland Basin Ski Area | 27 km | 166 cm | 1457 |
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 43 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
34cmDec
33cmJan
37cmFeb
43cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 146 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 113 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 192 cm (1.7 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
113
192
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
146
Run length
111km
Lifts
35
Vertical
993m
Top 3,910 m · base 2,917 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertExtreme Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.5 km
Steepest pitch38°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 24%
East 69%
South 6%
West 1%
93% 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 39
Intermediate 53
Advanced 49
Expert 2
Extreme 2
Other 1
Lift types
- Chairlift20
- Magic carpet10
- Platter3
- T-bar1
- 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.
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.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 39.4749, -106.0810
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