Hochbärneck is a ski area in Austria, at about 968 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 6 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 3.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 163 cm of snowfall a season, 1,503rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 185th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (298 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (91 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 60 cm.
Below is a link to its official live camera.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
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. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turmkogellifte Puchenstuben | 5.5 km | 163 cm | 1503 |
| Lackenhof - Ötscher | 8.1 km | 214 cm | 1008 |
| Maiszinken | 12 km | 211 cm | 1048 |
| Annaberg | 13 km | 153 cm | 1621 |
| Gemeindealpe Mitterbach | 14 km | 213 cm | 1022 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 40% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 24 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 163 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 91 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 298 cm (3.3 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 8% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
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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
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Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52