Holý diel is a ski area in Slovakia, at about 796 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 90 cm of snowfall a season, 2,478th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 48th in Slovakia. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (135 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (43 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Win ter park Martinky | 6.1 km | 91 cm | 2469 |
| Lyžiarske a rekreačné stredisko Veľké Ostré | 15 km | 85 cm | 2528 |
| Snowland | 15 km | 77 cm | 2614 |
| Vrátna | 20 km | 134 cm | 1892 |
| Jasenská dolina - stredisko Kašová | 22 km | 101 cm | 2360 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 25% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Slovakia (40%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 8 cm, less than the median of 12 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 90 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 43 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 135 cm (3.1 times as much). For 74% of the 87 ski areas in Slovakia, 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 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.
Lift types
- Drag lift2
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.
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