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Kreischberg

Off season Official site

Kreischberg is a ski area in Austria, on slopes between roughly 1,721 and 1,721 m. Its mapped area is about 7.2 km across, with 69 marked runs and 12 lifts (about 40 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 130 cm of snowfall a season, 1,954th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 200th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (184 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (65 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (35 and 33 cm on average).

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
10℃
Max wind
15.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
1721–1721m
Across
7.2km

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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
130 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
65 cm
A typical winter: 124 cm. The best: 184 cm.
World rank
1954
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
200
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
53
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,721 m, 380 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
Flattnitz16 km160 cm1541
Grebenzen20 km99 cm2386
Turracher Höhe22 km191 cm1235
Hochrindl25 km145 cm1729
Heidialm29 km177 cm1348

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 26 cm, less than the median of 49 cm.

35cm
Dec
33cm
Jan
35cm
Feb
26cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 130 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 65 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 184 cm (2.8 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

65
184
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
69
Run length
40km
Lifts
12
Vertical
1,253m
Top 2,116 m · base 863 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map2.2 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 61%
East 30%
South 1%
West 8%

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

Easy 28
Intermediate 24
Advanced 11
Other 6

Lift types

  • T-bar4
  • Gondola3
  • Chairlift3
  • Rope tow2

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

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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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