Norefjell is a ski area in Norway, at about 882 m. Its mapped area is about 4.7 km across, with 55 marked runs and 15 lifts (about 26 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 197 cm of snowfall a season, 1,174th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 70th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (322 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (114 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 59 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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 8 Oct | 0 | 1.1 / 3.3 | 41.4 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 0 / 2.3 | 40 |
| 🌨️ 10 Oct | 3.4 | -5.8 / 0.4 | 7.9 |
| 🌫️ 11 Oct | 0 | -5.1 / 1.3 | 7.9 |
| 🌫️ 12 Oct | 0 | -6.2 / 2 | 4.3 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | 0.8 / 5.6 | 9.5 |
| 🌦️ 14 Oct | 0 | 1.1 / 5.6 | 6.2 |
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
60% 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
- Drag lift5
- Chairlift3
- T-bar2
- Platter2
- Magic carpet2
- Rope tow1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turufjell Skisenter | 28 km | 177 cm | 1348 |
| Ringerudsetra skitrekk | 31 km | 182 cm | 1298 |
| Modum skisenter | 39 km | 133 cm | 1909 |
| Nesfjellet Alpinsenter | 45 km | 136 cm | 1860 |
| Ringkollen alpinbakke | 46 km | 156 cm | 1588 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 44 cm, about the same as the median of 47 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 197 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 114 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 322 cm (2.8 times as much). For 27% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
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.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52