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Sahand Ski Resort

Off season

Sahand Ski Resort is a ski area in Iran, at about 3,033 m. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 246 cm of snowfall a season, 761st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in Iran. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (391 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (150 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 78 cm.

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

Temperature
7.8℃
Max wind
27.9km/h
Elevation
3,033m
Across
1.7km

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.

Seasonal snowfall
246 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
150 cm
A typical winter: 239 cm. The best: 391 cm.
World rank
761
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
5
of 22 in Iran
Elevation rank
4
Highest to lowest, of 22 in Iran. The centre point sits at 3,033 m, 353 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 78 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.

51cm
Dec
59cm
Jan
58cm
Feb
78cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 246 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 150 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 391 cm (2.6 times as much).

150
391
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 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.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
3

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

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