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Steckenberg

Off season Official site

Steckenberg is a ski area in Germany, at about 924 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 12 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 188 cm of snowfall a season, 1,259th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 29th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (300 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (116 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 63 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
17.6km/h
Elevation
924m
Across
0.7km

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
188 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
116 cm
A typical winter: 191 cm. The best: 300 cm.
World rank
1259
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
29
of 75 in Germany
Elevation rank
35
Highest to lowest, of 75 in Germany. The centre point sits at 924 m, 58 m above 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
Skiweltcup Garmisch-Kandahar Rennen16 km204 cm1117
Eckbauer17 km205 cm1105
Garmisch-Classic Skiarea17 km237 cm810
Zugspitze20 km231 cm865
Nachwuchsförderzentrum "Reithlift"20 km140 cm1801

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Germany (47%). In amount, March brings 38 cm, more than the median of 27 cm.

44cm
Dec
63cm
Jan
43cm
Feb
38cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 188 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 116 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 300 cm (2.6 times as much).

300
116
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
12
Run length
2km
Lifts
6
Vertical
142m
Top 1,000 m · base 858 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.5 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 68%
East 24%
South 0%
West 9%

92% 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 3
Easy 5
Intermediate 4

Lift types

  • Platter3
  • Rope tow2
  • T-bar1

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

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Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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