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Ellegglifte – Faistenoy

Off season

Ellegglifte – Faistenoy is a ski area in Germany, at about 956 m. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 3 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 0.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 175 cm of snowfall a season, 1,368th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 32nd in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (282 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (108 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 62 cm.

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

Temperature
10.4℃
Max wind
32.2km/h
Elevation
956m
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
175 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
108 cm
A typical winter: 162 cm. The best: 282 cm.
World rank
1368
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
32
of 75 in Germany
Elevation rank
33
Highest to lowest, of 75 in Germany. The centre point sits at 956 m, 90 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
Buron3.2 km240 cm800
Nesselwang - Alpspitzbahnen5.1 km240 cm800
Sulzberg7.0 km140 cm1801
Sonnenlifte Röfleuten/Halden8.8 km163 cm1503
Spieserlifte11 km297 cm490

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 52% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Germany (47%). In amount, March brings 32 cm, more than the median of 27 cm.

41cm
Dec
62cm
Jan
40cm
Feb
32cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 175 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 108 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 282 cm (2.6 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

108
282
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
3
Run length
0.8km
Lifts
2
Vertical
58m
Top 996 m · base 939 m

Run map

NoviceEasy 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 pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 77%
East 23%
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

Novice 1
Easy 2

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Rope tow1

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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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