Vålådalen
Vålådalen is a ski area in Sweden, on slopes between roughly 709 and 709 m. Its mapped area is about 6.9 km across, with 2 marked runs and 1 lift (about 1.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 161 cm of snowfall a season, 1,527th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 16th in Sweden. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (247 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (112 cm). March still brings 44 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | -1.1 / 2.8 | 7.9 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | -2.7 / 2.9 | 10.4 |
| 🌨️ 10 Oct | 1.4 | -2.5 / 1.4 | 12.7 |
| 🌨️ 11 Oct | 0.9 | -0.8 / 1.1 | 12.5 |
| ☁️ 12 Oct | 0 | -2.4 / 2.5 | 4.7 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | -0.4 / 7.4 | 35.1 |
| 🌦️ 14 Oct | 0 | 4.3 / 6.6 | 20.6 |
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
Only 15% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Drag lift1
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottsjö | 8.9 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Trillevallen | 14 km | 146 cm | 1714 |
| Edsåsdalen | 18 km | 183 cm | 1294 |
| Åre | 28 km | 165 cm | 1470 |
| Huså | 37 km | 175 cm | 1368 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 92% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Sweden (67%). In amount, March brings 44 cm, more than the median of 25 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 161 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 112 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 247 cm (2.2 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.
Nearby resorts
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52