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Patscherkofel

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Patscherkofel is a ski area in Austria, at about 1,506 m. Its mapped area is about 4.2 km across, with 28 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 189 cm of snowfall a season, 1,248th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 173rd in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (306 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (111 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 57 cm.

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

Temperature
10.8℃
Max wind
25.1km/h
Elevation
1,506m
Across
4.2km

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. 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
189 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
111 cm
A typical winter: 181 cm. The best: 306 cm.
World rank
1248
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
173
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
86
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,506 m, 165 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Muttereralm - Mutters/Götzens6.9 km227 cm899
Serlesbahnen8.2 km213 cm1022
Glungezer8.5 km245 cm765
Nordkette10 km203 cm1130
Axamer Lizum11 km265 cm643

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 43 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.

47cm
Dec
57cm
Jan
42cm
Feb
43cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 189 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 111 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 306 cm (2.8 times as much). For 39% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

111
306
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
28
Run length
12km
Lifts
6
Vertical
1,071m
Top 1,961 m · base 890 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.0 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 42%
East 1%
South 4%
West 52%

Only 43% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 9
Intermediate 14
Advanced 4
Other 1

Lift types

  • T-bar2
  • Gondola1
  • Platter1
  • Rope tow1
  • 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.

Official piste map ↗

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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