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Ørskogfjell skisenter

Off season

Ørskogfjell skisenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 387 m. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 7 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 3.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 360 cm of snowfall a season, 254th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 35th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (550 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (163 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (95 and 93 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.

Temperature
4.9℃
Max wind
15.5km/h
Elevation
387m
Across
1.2km

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.

Seasonal snowfall
360 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
163 cm
A typical winter: 372 cm. The best: 550 cm.
World rank
254
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
35
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
95
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 387 m, 168 m below 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
Stordal alpinsenter18 km455 cm106
Sunnmørsalpane Skiarena Fjellseter25 km468 cm99
Strandafjellet skisenter28 km385 cm200
Tusten Skiheiser30 km268 cm631
Spjelkavikheisa32 km201 cm1140

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 90% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 84 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

95cm
Dec
93cm
Jan
88cm
Feb
84cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 360 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 163 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 550 cm (3.4 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

550
163
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
7
Run length
3.9km
Lifts
3
Vertical
385m
Top 703 m · base 318 m

Run map

NoviceEasyAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 7%
East 0%
South 5%
West 88%

Only 7% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 2
Easy 3
Advanced 2

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Platter1
  • 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.

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

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