Sauda skisenter
Sauda skisenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 438 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 15 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 8.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 527 cm of snowfall a season, 77th of 3,069 worldwide and 8th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (933 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (331 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 152 cm.
The nearest city of any size is Bergen, about 100 km away.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gullingen skisenter | 27 km | 508 cm | 81 |
| Fjellhaugen skisenter | 27 km | 433 cm | 127 |
| Røldal Skisenter | 36 km | 639 cm | 28 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 76% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 115 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 527 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 331 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 933 cm (2.8 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: 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
97% 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 lift5
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.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52