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Gamlestølen

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Gamlestølen is a ski area in Norway, at about 932 m. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 156 cm of snowfall a season, 1,588th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 91st in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (208 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (92 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 46 cm.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
5.7cm
Temperature
1.5℃
Max wind
23.8km/h
Elevation
932m
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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 8 Oct 0 0.4 / 2.4 23.8
🌨️ 9 Oct 0.1 -1.8 / 3 22.3
❄️ 10 Oct 5.5 -0.7 / 0 10.7
❄️ 11 Oct 0.3 -0.9 / 0.6 7.7
🌨️ 12 Oct 0.2 -3.3 / 1 11.1
🌦️ 13 Oct 0 0 / 5.4 21.1
🌦️ 14 Oct 0 2.1 / 5.1 16.4

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
2

Lift types

  • Drag lift1
  • Magic carpet1

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

Live Cameras

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

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

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
156 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
92 cm
A typical winter: 164 cm. The best: 208 cm.
World rank
1588
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
91
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
17
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 932 m, 377 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
Valdres Alpinsenter18 km136 cm1860
Stavadalen skisenter26 km151 cm1652
Brattstølen Skisenter33 km137 cm1843
Skeikampen Alpinsenter41 km145 cm1729
Lysgårdsbakkene hoppanlegg44 km147 cm1699

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 78% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 36 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

41cm
Dec
46cm
Jan
33cm
Feb
36cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 156 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 92 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 208 cm (2.3 times as much). For 27% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

92
208
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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