🇳🇴 Norway

Hurdal Skisenter

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Hurdal Skisenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 394 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 7 marked runs and 1 lift (about 1.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 166 cm of snowfall a season, 1,457th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 84th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (253 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (104 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 55 cm.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
1.9cm
Temperature
3.7℃
Max wind
23.4km/h
Elevation
394m
Across
1.1km

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

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌧️ 8 Oct 0 2.7 / 5.3 23.4
☁️ 9 Oct 0 1 / 7 22.7
❄️ 10 Oct 1.9 1.3 / 3.1 9.3
🌦️ 11 Oct 0 1.5 / 2.9 11.3
🌫️ 12 Oct 0 -0.5 / 7 10.3
🌦️ 13 Oct 0 3.5 / 9.2 27.7
🌦️ 14 Oct 0 6.4 / 8.8 18.9

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
7
Run length
1.4km
Lifts
1
Vertical
203m
Top 523 m · base 321 m

Run map

NoviceIntermediateAdvanced 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 map0.5 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 6%
East 2%
South 0%
West 92%

Only 8% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 3
Intermediate 2
Advanced 2

Lift types

  • Drag lift1

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.

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
166 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
104 cm
A typical winter: 157 cm. The best: 253 cm.
World rank
1457
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
84
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
94
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 394 m, 161 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
Lundbybakkene6.5 km169 cm1427
Nannestad Skisenter22 km162 cm1517
Lygna skisenter24 km127 cm2001

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 64% 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 35 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.

42cm
Dec
55cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
35cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 166 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 104 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 253 cm (2.4 times as much). For 27% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

104
253
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.

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

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