Renåfjellet alpinsenter
Renåfjellet alpinsenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 738 m. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 5 marked runs and 1 lift (about 4.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 105 cm of snowfall a season, 2,319th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 130th in Norway. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2016/17 (71 cm), reached 68% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 33 cm.
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.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | 1.1 / 2.6 | 23.4 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | -1.3 / 3.4 | 19.8 |
| 🌨️ 10 Oct | 4.7 | -0.1 / 1.4 | 15.5 |
| ❄️ 11 Oct | 4.5 | -1.1 / 0.9 | 8.3 |
| 🌫️ 12 Oct | 0 | -6.6 / 1.4 | 9.5 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | 0.5 / 6.9 | 22.8 |
| 🌦️ 14 Oct | 0 | 4 / 6.4 | 18.9 |
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
77% 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 lift1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engerdal Østfjell | 36 km | 115 cm | 2167 |
| Furutangen skisenter | 46 km | 130 cm | 1954 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 67% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 22 cm, less than the median of 47 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 105 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 71 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 131 cm (1.8 times as much). For 27% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: 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.
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52