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Ski Montcalm

Off season

Ski Montcalm is a ski area in Canada, at about 234 m. Its mapped area is about 3.5 km across, with 23 marked runs and 9 lifts (about 8.7 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 157 cm of snowfall a season, 1,578th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 70th in Canada. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (117 cm), reached 75% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 47 cm.

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

Temperature
9.8℃
Max wind
27.2km/h
Elevation
234m
Across
3.5km

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
157 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
117 cm
A typical winter: 153 cm. The best: 207 cm.
World rank
1578
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
70
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
148
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 234 m, 303 m below the national median.

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Station touristique Val Saint-Côme27 km159 cm1553
Sommet Olympia27 km162 cm1517
Ski Chantecler29 km164 cm1485
Ski Mont Gabriel29 km164 cm1485
Chez Ti-Jean ski de fond30 km128 cm1990

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 68% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 32 cm, about the same as the median of 32 cm.

35cm
Dec
47cm
Jan
43cm
Feb
32cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 157 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 117 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 207 cm (1.8 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

117
207
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 runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
23
Run length
8.7km
Lifts
9
Vertical
112m
Top 324 m · base 213 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 63%
East 19%
South 3%
West 15%

82% 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

Novice 1
Easy 7
Intermediate 8
Advanced 5
Other 2

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • T-bar1
  • Platter1
  • Rope tow1
  • Magic carpet1

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.

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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