Papaei Ski Resort
Papaei Ski Resort is a ski area in Iran, at about 2,100 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 2 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 84 cm of snowfall a season, 2,539th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 21st in Iran. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (141 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (39 cm). February is usually the snowiest month, with about 26 cm.
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings 74% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Iran (108%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 17 cm, less than the median of 52 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 84 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 39 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 141 cm (3.6 times as much). For 45% of the 22 ski areas in Iran, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: 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
100% 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 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52