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Obertauern

Obertauern is a ski area in Austria, on slopes between roughly 1,771 and 1,771 m. Its mapped area is about 6.0 km across, with 260 marked runs and 28 lifts (about 87 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 262 cm of snowfall a season, 660th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 77th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (452 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (169 cm). March still brings 59 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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

Temperature

8.7℃

Max wind

17km/h

Elevation (est.)

1771–1771m

Across

6.0km

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

262 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

169 cm

A typical winter: 246 cm. The best: 452 cm.

World rank

660

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

of 243 in Austria

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,771 m, 430 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Zauchensee-Flachauwinkl	9.2 km	268 cm	631
Fageralm	12 km	270 cm	618
Ski amadé	13 km	287 cm	534
Reiteralm	14 km	289 cm	526
Fanningberg	14 km	227 cm	899

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 82% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 59 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

71cm

Dec

72cm

Jan

61cm

Feb

59cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 262 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 169 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 452 cm (2.7 times as much).

452

169

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

260

Run length

87km

Lifts

Vertical

669m

Top 2,297 m · base 1,628 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.0 km

Steepest pitch39°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 14%

East 27%

South 35%

West 24%

Only 41% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 1

Easy 148

Intermediate 76

Advanced 11

Expert 1

Other 23

Lift types

Chairlift17
T-bar2
Gondola2
Platter2
Drag lift2
Mixed gondola/chair2
Magic carpet1

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.