Holmenkollen National Ski Arena is a ski area in Norway, at about 340 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 150 cm of snowfall a season, 1,665th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 101st in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (223 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (91 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 52 cm.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skimore Oslo | 3.2 km | 150 cm | 1665 |
| Oslo Skisenter | 7.7 km | 107 cm | 2287 |
| Lillomarka Arena | 11 km | 123 cm | 2056 |
| Jerikobakken | 12 km | 104 cm | 2329 |
| Leirskallen skisenter | 15 km | 93 cm | 2449 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 62% 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 32 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 150 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 91 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 223 cm (2.5 times as much).
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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 1.6 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift2
- Drag lift1
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.
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 ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52