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嵩山少林滑雪场

Off season

嵩山少林滑雪场 is a ski area in China, at about 458 m. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 2 marked runs (about 0.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 24 cm of snowfall a season, 2,945th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 80th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (40 cm), brought more than 8 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (5 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 11 cm.

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

Temperature
17.8℃
Max wind
10.5km/h
Elevation
458m
Across
0.4km

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.

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
24 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
5 cm
A typical winter: 25 cm. The best: 40 cm.
World rank
2945
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
80
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
115
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 458 m, 395 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
嵩顶滑雪场8.9 km28 cm2928

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 27% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in China (127%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 3 cm, less than the median of 6 cm.

4cm
Dec
11cm
Jan
6cm
Feb
3cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 24 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 5 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 40 cm (8.0 times as much).

5
40
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
0.4km
Vertical
38m
Top 473 m · base 435 m

Run map

Other 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 map0.3 km
Steepest pitch8°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 100%
East 0%
South 0%
West 0%

100% 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

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.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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