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羌人谷滑雪场

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羌人谷滑雪场 is a ski area in China, at about 3,366 m. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 10 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 4.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 97 cm of snowfall a season, 2,406th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in China. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (75 cm), reached 77% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (14 and 12 cm on average).

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0.1cm
Temperature
5.8℃
Max wind
9.2km/h
Elevation
3,366m
Across
1.6km

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 8 Oct 0 1.1 / 10.3 9.2
🌧️ 9 Oct 0 2.6 / 9.6 10.2
🌧️ 10 Oct 0.1 2.6 / 7.1 8.4
🌦️ 11 Oct 0 3.1 / 13.7 7.8
❄️ 12 Oct 0.4 3 / 9.4 6
❄️ 13 Oct 1.3 2 / 9.3 6.8
❄️ 14 Oct 0.2 2.6 / 5.6 4

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
10
Run length
4.5km
Lifts
2
Vertical
83m
Top 3,386 m · base 3,303 m

Run map

NoviceEasyAdvanced 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 map0.8 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 53%
East 11%
South 35%
West 1%

64% 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

Novice 1
Easy 6
Advanced 3

Lift types

  • Chairlift2

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.

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
97 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
75 cm
A typical winter: 95 cm. The best: 128 cm.
World rank
2406
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
4
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
2
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 3,366 m, 2,513 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
九鼎山·太子岭滑雪场29 km70 cm2666

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 50 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

14cm
Dec
12cm
Jan
22cm
Feb
50cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 97 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 75 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 128 cm (1.7 times as much).

75
128
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.

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

More places to look

Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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