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Torsbustaden alpinsenter

Off season

Torsbustaden alpinsenter is a ski area in Norway, at about 276 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 3 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 207 cm of snowfall a season, 1,081st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 66th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (300 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (112 cm). March still brings 54 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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

Temperature
4.6℃
Max wind
10.8km/h
Elevation
276m
Across
1.0km

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
207 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
112 cm
A typical winter: 215 cm. The best: 300 cm.
World rank
1081
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
66
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
110
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 276 m, 279 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
Blommen skisenter21 km194 cm1201
Meråker alpinsenter32 km272 cm608

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 98% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 54 cm, about the same as the median of 47 cm.

51cm
Dec
55cm
Jan
46cm
Feb
54cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 207 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 112 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 300 cm (2.7 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

300
112
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
3
Run length
1.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
173m
Top 397 m · base 224 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 78%
East 2%
South 3%
West 18%

80% 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 1
Intermediate 1

Lift types

  • J-bar1
  • 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.

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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