Oi-Qaragai
Oi-Qaragai is a ski area in Kazakhstan, at about 1,706 m. Its mapped area is about 2.2 km across, with 6 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 4.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 133 cm of snowfall a season, 1,909th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in Kazakhstan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2022/23 (94 cm), reached 71% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (27 and 22 cm on average).
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shymbulak | 12 km | 134 cm | 1892 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 51 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 133 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 94 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 171 cm (1.8 times as much). For 40% of the 5 ski areas in Kazakhstan, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23: 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.
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
73% 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
- Chairlift3
- Drag lift2
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52