January 20, 2026 Powder Day
By: Caberfae Peaks · 2026-01-21
Caberfae Peaks is a ski area in United States, at about 396 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 20 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 110 cm of snowfall a season, 2,236th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 342nd in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (74 cm), reached 67% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 36 cm.
Below is a link to its official live camera.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
12.2℃
Max wind
23.1km/h
Elevation
396m
Across
1.4km
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. 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
110 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
74 cm
A typical winter: 108 cm. The best: 140 cm.
World rank
2236
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
342
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
340
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 396 m, 132 m below 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Mountain | 38 km | 119 cm | 2097 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 58% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 21 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
29cmDec
36cmJan
25cmFeb
21cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 110 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 74 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 140 cm (1.9 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.
74
140
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
20
Run length
6.6km
Lifts
5
Vertical
108m
Top 465 m · base 357 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.7 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 40%
East 0%
South 3%
West 57%
Only 40% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Easy 7
Intermediate 9
Advanced 4
Lift types
- Chairlift4
- 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.
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 44.2422, -85.7176
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.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52