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Freesports Arena Dachstein Krippenstein

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Freesports Arena Dachstein Krippenstein is a ski area in Austria, on slopes between roughly 1,517 and 1,517 m. Its mapped area is about 5.3 km across, with 17 marked runs and 9 lifts (about 9.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 283 cm of snowfall a season, 554th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 50th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (534 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (182 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 84 cm.

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

Temperature
10.6℃
Max wind
26.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
1517–1517m
Across
5.3km

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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. Snow report on the official site ↗

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
283 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
182 cm
A typical winter: 270 cm. The best: 534 cm.
World rank
554
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
50
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
84
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,517 m, 176 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
Ramsau am Dachstein12 km307 cm454
Loser-Altaussee15 km309 cm451
Schladming Dachstein15 km299 cm484
Skiregion Dachstein West16 km284 cm549
Hauser Kaibling17 km299 cm484

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 71% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 60 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

72cm
Dec
84cm
Jan
66cm
Feb
60cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 283 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 182 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 534 cm (2.9 times as much).

534
182
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
17
Run length
9.7km
Lifts
9
Vertical
1,468m
Top 2,066 m · base 599 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate 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 map4.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 46%
East 27%
South 10%
West 17%

73% 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

Easy 12
Intermediate 5

Lift types

  • Cable car3
  • Rope tow2
  • Drag lift2
  • Chairlift1
  • Magic carpet1

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.

Official piste map ↗

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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