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Knittellifte

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Knittellifte is a ski area in Austria, at about 1,187 m. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across, with 3 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 1.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 328 cm of snowfall a season, 363rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 13th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (507 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (221 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 98 cm.

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

Temperature
10℃
Max wind
11.1km/h
Elevation
1,187m
Across
0.9km

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
328 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
221 cm
A typical winter: 295 cm. The best: 507 cm.
World rank
363
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
13
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
161
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,187 m, 154 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
Jöchelspitze3.7 km318 cm408
Gföllberglift6.8 km318 cm408
Familienskipark Stanzach15 km302 cm472
Nordic Zentrum Oberstdorf15 km272 cm608
Nebelhorn16 km304 cm461

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 80% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 78 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

82cm
Dec
98cm
Jan
72cm
Feb
78cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 328 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 221 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 507 cm (2.3 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

507
221
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
3
Run length
1.6km
Lifts
3
Vertical
173m
Top 1,227 m · base 1,054 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 map0.9 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 7%
East 85%
South 7%
West 1%

92% 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 1
Intermediate 2

Lift types

  • Rope tow2
  • T-bar1

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.

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 ↗

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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