Vimpelinvaaran laskettelurinne
Vimpelinvaaran laskettelurinne is a ski area in Finland, at about 172 m. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 110 cm of snowfall a season, 2,236th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 26th in Finland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (140 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (61 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (33 and 27 cm on average).
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vuokatinrinteet | 29 km | 116 cm | 2148 |
| Saukkovaaran laskettelukeskus | 41 km | 127 cm | 2001 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Finland (80%). In amount, March brings 23 cm, about the same as the median of 23 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 110 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 61 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 140 cm (2.3 times as much). For 67% of the 52 ski areas in Finland, the leanest winter was the same 2025/26: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Platter1
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
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