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Kalte Herberge

Off season Official site

Kalte Herberge is a ski area in Germany, at about 1,030 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 8 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 2.1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 148 cm of snowfall a season, 1,686th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 40th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (253 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (84 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 55 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.

Temperature
8.8℃
Max wind
19.9km/h
Elevation
1,030m
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. 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.

Seasonal snowfall
148 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
84 cm
A typical winter: 142 cm. The best: 253 cm.
World rank
1686
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
40
of 75 in Germany
Elevation rank
29
Highest to lowest, of 75 in Germany. The centre point sits at 1,030 m, 164 m above 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
Skigebiet Feldberg21 km206 cm1092
Skigebiet Hofeck24 km206 cm1092
Skigebiet Spitzenberg und Köpfle25 km205 cm1105
Skigebiet Münstertal-Wieden30 km157 cm1578

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 49% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Germany (47%). In amount, March brings 27 cm, about the same as the median of 27 cm.

33cm
Dec
55cm
Jan
33cm
Feb
27cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 148 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 84 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 253 cm (3.0 times as much).

253
84
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
8
Run length
2.1km
Lifts
4
Vertical
68m
Top 1,074 m · base 1,006 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.6 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 70%
East 2%
South 1%
West 27%

72% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 6
Intermediate 2

Lift types

  • Magic carpet3
  • T-bar1

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

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

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

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