🇨🇦 Canada

Snow Valley Ski Resort

Snow Valley Ski Resort is a ski area in Canada, at about 272 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 44 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 8.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 112 cm of snowfall a season, 2,208th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 133rd in Canada. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2023/24 (82 cm), reached 73% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 32 cm.

Below is a link to its official live camera.

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

Temperature

11.3℃

Max wind

34.5km/h

Elevation

272m

Across

1.4km

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 ↗

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

112 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

82 cm

A typical winter: 114 cm. The best: 155 cm.

World rank

2208

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

133

of 171 in Canada

Elevation rank

139

Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 272 m, 265 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Horseshoe Valley Resort	18 km	127 cm	2001
The Heights Ski & Country Club	18 km	127 cm	2001
Mansfield Ski Club	32 km	120 cm	2091
Devil's Glen Country Club	33 km	140 cm	1801
Highlands Nordic	35 km	144 cm	1745

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 53% 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 17 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.

31cm

Dec

32cm

Jan

32cm

Feb

17cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 112 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 82 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 155 cm (1.9 times as much). For 26% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2023/24: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

155

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

Run length

8.5km

Lifts

Vertical

88m

Top 323 m · base 236 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedExpertOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.6 km

Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs8.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 68%

East 2%

South 3%

West 27%

70% 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 9

Easy 14

Intermediate 5

Advanced 6

Expert 1

Other 9

Lift types

Magic carpet5
Chairlift3

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.