Paljakan matkailu- ja hiihtokeskus is a ski area in Finland, at about 233 m. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 9 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 142 cm of snowfall a season, 1,775th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Finland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (184 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (80 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (43 and 36 cm on average).
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 | -0.8 / 8 | 9 |
| 🌧️ 9 Oct | 0 | 1.4 / 3.3 | 24.8 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | -1.4 / 2.6 | 21.2 |
| 🌨️ 11 Oct | 0.4 | -0.7 / 2.9 | 16 |
| 🌨️ 12 Oct | 0.1 | 0.6 / 2.4 | 17 |
| ☁️ 13 Oct | 0 | 0.2 / 3.9 | 15.4 |
| ☁️ 14 Oct | 0 | 0.2 / 4.7 | 16.2 |
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
Only 9% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Drag lift5
- Platter2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiihtokeskus Ukkohalla | 16 km | 134 cm | 1892 |
| Saukkovaaran laskettelukeskus | 24 km | 127 cm | 2001 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Finland (80%). In amount, March brings 31 cm, more than the median of 23 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 142 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 80 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 184 cm (2.3 times as much). For 67% of the 52 ski areas in Finland, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: 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