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Høgås alpinsenter

Off season

Høgås alpinsenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 181 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 2 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 0.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 136 cm of snowfall a season, 1,860th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 110th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (222 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (56 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 50 cm.

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

Temperature
5.6℃
Max wind
27.7km/h
Elevation
181m
Across
0.7km

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
136 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
56 cm
A typical winter: 145 cm. The best: 222 cm.
World rank
1860
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
110
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
124
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 181 m, 374 m below 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
Stillerud akebakke18 km143 cm1761
Gjerpenkollen hoppbakke22 km159 cm1553
Siljan skisenter41 km151 cm1652
Ellingsrudkollen41 km100 cm2370

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 30 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

27cm
Dec
50cm
Jan
29cm
Feb
30cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 136 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 56 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 222 cm (4.0 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

222
56
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
2
Run length
0.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
135m
Top 235 m · base 100 m

Run map

Other 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 map0.6 km
Steepest pitch16°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 0%
South 97%
West 3%

Only 0% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Other 2

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Platter1

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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