Shymbulak is a ski area in Kazakhstan, at about 2,626 m. Its mapped area is about 4.8 km across, with 21 marked runs and 11 lifts (about 11 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 134 cm of snowfall a season, 1,892nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 3rd in Kazakhstan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (192 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (81 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (27 and 20 cm on average).
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 ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | -4.2 / 6.8 | 6.9 |
| ❄️ 9 Oct | 0.1 | -3.7 / 7.5 | 7.9 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | -1.1 / 7.3 | 7.4 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | -2.7 / 9.5 | 7.8 |
| 🌨️ 12 Oct | 1.9 | 1.9 / 7.8 | 9.6 |
| ❄️ 13 Oct | 3.6 | -1.4 / 2 | 6.4 |
| 🌤️ 14 Oct | 0 | -0.1 / 7.5 | 5.9 |
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
55% 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
- Magic carpet4
- T-bar2
- Chairlift2
- Mixed gondola/chair2
- Gondola1
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oi-Qaragai | 12 km | 133 cm | 1909 |
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 56 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 134 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 81 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 192 cm (2.4 times as much). For 40% of the 5 ski areas in Kazakhstan, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23: 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.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52