Payam Ski Resort
Payam Ski Resort is a ski area in Iran, at about 1,939 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 96 cm of snowfall a season, 2,422nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 20th in Iran. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (145 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (48 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 31 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 January. March brings 71% 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 22 cm, less than the median of 52 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 96 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 48 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 145 cm (3.0 times as much).
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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Drag lift3
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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