Skálafell is a ski area in Iceland, at about 527 m. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 10 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 6.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 267 cm of snowfall a season, 633rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Iceland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (472 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (150 cm). March still brings 69 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
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 | 0.3 / 3.3 | 56.9 |
| 🌦️ 9 Oct | 0 | 0 / 3.8 | 24.5 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | -0.4 / 3.1 | 11.8 |
| 🌧️ 11 Oct | 0 | -0.5 / 2.7 | 33.5 |
| ❄️ 12 Oct | 0.1 | 1.8 / 4.2 | 34.6 |
| ❄️ 13 Oct | 2 | -1.8 / 2.1 | 13.1 |
| ❄️ 14 Oct | 0.8 | -5.1 / -0.9 | 4 |
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
53% 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 lift3
- Chairlift1
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.
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 97% of January’s snowfall.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 267 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 150 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 472 cm (3.1 times as much).
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