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鳌山滑雪场

Off season

鳌山滑雪场 is a ski area in China, at about 2,057 m. Its mapped area is about 3.5 km across, with 20 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 19 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 79 cm of snowfall a season, 2,595th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 11th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (99 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (43 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 28 cm.

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

Temperature
10.7℃
Max wind
4.8km/h
Elevation
2,057m
Across
3.5km

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
79 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
43 cm
A typical winter: 80 cm. The best: 99 cm.
World rank
2595
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
11
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
21
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 2,057 m, 1,204 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 28 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

13cm
Dec
18cm
Jan
20cm
Feb
28cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 79 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 43 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 99 cm (2.3 times as much).

43
99
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
19km
Lifts
7
Vertical
796m
Top 2,618 m · base 1,822 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map3.0 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 82%
East 8%
South 0%
West 10%

90% 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
Intermediate 5
Advanced 5
Other 9

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Magic carpet3
  • 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.

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.

More places to look

Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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