🇵🇱 Poland

Kotelnica Białczańska Ski Resort

Off season Official site

Kotelnica Białczańska Ski Resort is a ski area in Poland, at about 816 m. Its mapped area is about 4.0 km across, with 38 marked runs and 22 lifts (about 18 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 131 cm of snowfall a season, 1,942nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 25th in Poland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (214 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (63 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 41 cm.

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

Temperature
12.5℃
Max wind
16.6km/h
Elevation
816m
Across
4.0km

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
131 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
63 cm
A typical winter: 126 cm. The best: 214 cm.
World rank
1942
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
25
of 82 in Poland
Elevation rank
21
Highest to lowest, of 82 in Poland. The centre point sits at 816 m, 214 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
Bania Ski1.2 km131 cm1942
Kaniówka Ski Station1.6 km130 cm1954
Grapa SKI Czarna Góra2.2 km131 cm1942
Rusiń-Ski2.3 km130 cm1954
Koziniec SKI3.2 km125 cm2029

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 54% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Poland (40%). In amount, March brings 22 cm, more than the median of 16 cm.

35cm
Dec
41cm
Jan
33cm
Feb
22cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 131 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 63 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 214 cm (3.4 times as much). For 39% of the 82 ski areas in Poland, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

214
63
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
38
Run length
18km
Lifts
22
Vertical
237m
Top 942 m · base 705 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 map1.5 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 31%
East 60%
South 8%
West 1%

91% 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

Novice 6
Easy 24
Intermediate 8

Lift types

  • Chairlift9
  • Platter4
  • Magic carpet4
  • Drag lift3
  • T-bar2

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.

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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