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Weather at Hafjell

Weather at Hafjell: a six-day forecast for three elevations of the mountain. Temperature, precipitation, wind and cloud cover from MET Norway. Updated several times a day.

What the weather at Hafjell is usually like

The ski area runs from 195 to 1,059 m above sea level - a 864 m vertical. In January the daytime average is -3 °C at the base and -9 °C at the summit. Plan for that 6 °C gap: what feels right at the base will be cold up top. The summit sits around -9 °C at the same time of year - at that point the wind matters more than the thermometer.

Average daytime highs at the summit stay below freezing from November through March. Last season brought 223 cm of snow here. The snowiest month was January: 64 cm over 9 days with snowfall. The snowpack was deepest in March, at roughly 69 cm. These are observations from a single season, not a long-term norm: a snowy year here can be twice a lean one.

Snowmaking covers 90% of the runs, so the start of the season barely depends on when natural snow arrives. The season usually runs from 5 December to 11 April.

By March the base is around 3 °C while the summit still holds -2 °C: on days like that, start early and stay high. Based on monthly averages and the resort elevations. For the coming days, see the forecast above.

Average monthly temperature in Hafjell

0 °C
-6-11
-3-10
0-7
5-4
112
177
179
168
125
50
-1-5
-5-10
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Average daytime highAverage night-time lowData by Open-Meteo (ERA5 reanalysis) for the mid station; top and base are derived with the standard lapse rate of 0.65 °C per 100 m, exactly as the source itself does. Averaged over 2015 - 2024.

Average monthly snowfall at Hafjell

Snowiest month:January- 64 cm
64Jan9 days
35Feb6 days
22Mar4 days
11Apr2 days
52Nov7 days
40Dec7 days

Snowfall per month - cm. Below each bar - how many days it snowed that month. Observation data for the last 3 completed seasons.

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