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七步沟滑雪场

Off season

七步沟滑雪场 is a ski area in China, at about 855 m. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 2 marked runs (about 0.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 19 cm of snowfall a season, 2,985th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 109th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (37 cm), brought more than 7 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (5 cm). March still brings 5 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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

Temperature
16.8℃
Max wind
15.5km/h
Elevation
855m
Across
0.8km

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
19 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
5 cm
A typical winter: 16 cm. The best: 37 cm.
World rank
2985
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
109
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
90
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 855 m, 2 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
邯郸佛山滑雪场50 km10 cm3039
太行五指山滑雪场50 km19 cm2985

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 5 cm, less than the median of 6 cm.

4cm
Dec
5cm
Jan
5cm
Feb
5cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 19 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 5 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 37 cm (7.4 times as much). For 31% of the 181 ski areas in China, the leanest winter was the same 2018/19: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

5
37
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
2
Run length
0.8km
Vertical
80m
Top 912 m · base 831 m

Run map

Other Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.6 km
Steepest pitch8°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 84%
East 0%
South 0%
West 16%

84% 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

Other 2

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.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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