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石柱天山滑雪场

Off season

石柱天山滑雪场 is a ski area in China, at about 1,439 m. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 4 marked runs (about 0.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 43 cm of snowfall a season, 2,863rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 34th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (72 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (16 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 17 cm.

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

Temperature
14.4℃
Max wind
11.4km/h
Elevation
1,439m
Across
0.5km

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
43 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
16 cm
A typical winter: 44 cm. The best: 72 cm.
World rank
2863
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
34
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
50
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 1,439 m, 586 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 24% 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 4 cm, less than the median of 6 cm.

9cm
Dec
17cm
Jan
13cm
Feb
4cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 43 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 16 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 72 cm (4.5 times as much).

16
72
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
4
Run length
0.8km
Vertical
51m
Top 1,485 m · base 1,434 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 map0.3 km
Steepest pitch12°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.8°

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 4

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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