ZiL Ski Resort is a ski area in Kyrgyzstan, at about 2,046 m. Its mapped area is about 2.4 km across, with 8 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 5.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 146 cm of snowfall a season, 1,714th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 6th in Kyrgyzstan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (232 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (99 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (28 and 23 cm on average).
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 3.7 / 11.7 | 9.3 |
| 🌤️ 9 Oct | 0 | 4.6 / 11.9 | 9.6 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | 3.3 / 12.1 | 10.3 |
| 🌦️ 11 Oct | 0 | 4.3 / 14.1 | 9 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | 5.4 / 8.3 | 8 |
| ❄️ 13 Oct | 4.2 | 0.2 / 6.5 | 7.3 |
| 🌦️ 14 Oct | 0 | -0.4 / 11.3 | 7 |
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
96% 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
Lift types
- T-bar1
- Platter1
- Drag lift1
- Chairlift1
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toguz Bulak Ski resort | 8.6 km | 148 cm | 1686 |
| Ski Tatyr | 8.7 km | 103 cm | 2336 |
| Ski base Chunkurchak | 11 km | 172 cm | 1401 |
| Ak Tash ski base | 18 km | 173 cm | 1389 |
| Эдельвейс | 18 km | 173 cm | 1389 |
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 61 cm, about the same as the median of 59 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 146 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 99 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 232 cm (2.3 times as much). For 50% of the 12 ski areas in Kyrgyzstan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52