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Yunding Resort Secret Garden

Off season

Yunding Resort Secret Garden is a ski area in China, at about 1,838 m. Its mapped area is about 4.0 km across, with 39 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 28 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 24 cm of snowfall a season, 2,945th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 88th in China. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (49 cm), brought more than 9 times as much as the leanest, 2017/18 (5 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 13 cm.

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
13.6km/h
Elevation
1,838m
Across
4.0km

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
24 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
5 cm
A typical winter: 24 cm. The best: 49 cm.
World rank
2945
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
88
of 181 in China
Elevation rank
29
Highest to lowest, of 181 in China. The centre point sits at 1,838 m, 985 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
Wanlong Paradise Resort2.9 km24 cm2945
雪如意滑雪场6.0 km25 cm2939
National Ski Jumping Centre6.1 km24 cm2945
National Biathlon Centre6.5 km24 cm2945
长城岭滑雪场7.0 km22 cm2963

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 13 cm, more than the median of 6 cm.

2cm
Dec
3cm
Jan
6cm
Feb
13cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 24 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2017/18 with 5 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 49 cm (9.8 times as much).

5
49
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
39
Run length
28km
Lifts
7
Vertical
448m
Top 2,103 m · base 1,655 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map2.3 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 25%
East 63%
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

Easy 3
Intermediate 18
Advanced 18

Lift types

  • Chairlift5
  • Gondola1
  • Magic carpet1

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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