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Vestvatnlia alpinanlegg

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Vestvatnlia alpinanlegg is a ski area in Norway, at about 386 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 6 marked runs and 1 lift (about 5.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 344 cm of snowfall a season, 293rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 38th in Norway. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (479 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2017/18 (167 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (90 and 84 cm on average).

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0.1cm
Next 72h
0.4cm
Temperature
1.6℃
Max wind
9.7km/h
Elevation
386m
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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0.2/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌧️ 8 Oct 0 -0.1 / 2.9 9.7
🌨️ 9 Oct 0.4 -1.5 / 3.3 4.7
☁️ 10 Oct 0 -1.7 / 0.7 14.8
🌨️ 11 Oct 0.5 -2.8 / 0.2 13.6
☁️ 12 Oct 0 -4.2 / 0.4 15.5
🌨️ 13 Oct 0.2 -2.5 / 3.3 19.2
🌦️ 14 Oct 0 1.9 / 5.3 14.1

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
6
Run length
5.3km
Lifts
1
Vertical
310m
Top 486 m · base 176 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 map2.0 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 13%
East 75%
South 11%
West 0%

88% 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 2
Easy 3
Intermediate 1

Lift types

  • 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

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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
344 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
167 cm
A typical winter: 371 cm. The best: 479 cm.
World rank
293
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
38
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
96
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 386 m, 169 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 102 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

90cm
Dec
84cm
Jan
67cm
Feb
102cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 344 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2017/18 with 167 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 479 cm (2.9 times as much).

479
167
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.

Map

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

Nearby resorts

No other resorts on file within 120km.

More places to look

Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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