Mont Orford
Mont Orford is a ski area in Canada, at about 438 m. Its mapped area is about 3.3 km across, with 37 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 25 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 156 cm of snowfall a season, 1,588th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 71st in Canada. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2020/21 (125 cm), reached 80% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 46 cm.
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
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 7 Oct | 0 | 2.6 / 12.6 | 23.9 |
| 🌧️ 8 Oct | 0 | 6.8 / 10.7 | 27.1 |
| 🌨️ 9 Oct | 0.2 | 2.1 / 7.8 | 22.8 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | -2 / 9.8 | 11.4 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 3.6 / 18.7 | 15.8 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | 9.7 / 14.4 | 9.7 |
| 🌧️ 13 Oct | 0 | 4.6 / 15.3 | 22.6 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
90% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift5
- Magic carpet3
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owl's Head | 28 km | 155 cm | 1601 |
| Bromont Montagne d'Expérience | 32 km | 154 cm | 1612 |
| Jay Peak Resort | 48 km | 178 cm | 1335 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 74% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Canada (79%). In amount, March brings 34 cm, about the same as the median of 32 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 156 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 125 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 186 cm (1.5 times as much).
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