Hafjell
Hafjell is a ski area in Norway, at about 700 m. Its mapped area is about 4.7 km across, with 124 marked runs and 17 lifts (about 39 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 144 cm of snowfall a season, 1,745th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 106th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (178 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (89 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 44 cm.
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
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | 1.4 / 3.9 | 22.3 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | -1.6 / 3.8 | 20.2 |
| ❄️ 10 Oct | 4.4 | 0 / 2 | 13.3 |
| 🌦️ 11 Oct | 0 | 0.7 / 2.5 | 3.6 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | -2.2 / 1.7 | 9.9 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | 1.3 / 8.3 | 22.6 |
| 🌦️ 14 Oct | 0 | 4.7 / 7.1 | 16.4 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 12% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- T-bar5
- Platter4
- Chairlift4
- Magic carpet3
- Gondola1
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
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birkebeineren Ski- og Skiskytterstadion | 11 km | 145 cm | 1729 |
| Lysgårdsbakkene hoppanlegg | 12 km | 147 cm | 1699 |
| Sjusjøen Skisenter | 20 km | 164 cm | 1485 |
| Skeikampen Alpinsenter | 25 km | 145 cm | 1729 |
| Kvitfjell | 31 km | 125 cm | 2029 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 68% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 30 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 144 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 89 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 178 cm (2.0 times as much).
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