Italy

Alta Badia

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
154cm
Elevation
1,341–2,526 m
Across
18 km

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 ↗

Alta Badia, in Italy, runs from 1,341 m at the base to 2,526 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 18 km across, with 221 marked runs and 59 lifts (about 127 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 154 cm of snowfall a season, 1,612th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 124th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (272 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (60 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (41 and 33 cm on average).

Below are links to its official live camera.

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
154cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
60cm
The middle winter of the 12: 140 cm. The best: 272 cm.
World rank
1612
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
124
of 177 in Italy
Elevation rank
112
Highest to lowest, of 177 in Italy. The centre point sits at 1,528 m, 116 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Arabba8.6 km170 cm1416
Lagazuoi - 5 Torri11.0 km189 cm1248
Belvedere - Col Rodella - Passo Pordoi12.0 km171 cm1407
Marmolada14.0 km180 cm1320
Antermoia14.0 km123 cm2056

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
221
Run length
127km
Lifts
59
Vertical
1,185m
Top 2,526 m · base 1,341 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.0 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 27%
East 30%
South 17%
West 26%

57% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Easy 153 · 72.3 km
Intermediate 47 · 33.4 km
Advanced 5 · 4.5 km
Other 16 · 17.1 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift29
  • Gondola11
  • Platter9
  • Magic carpet8
  • Drag lift1
  • Funicular1

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 41 cm, about the same as the median of 48 cm.

41cm
Dec
33cm
Jan
39cm
Feb
41cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 154 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 60 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 272 cm (4.5 times as much). For 31% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

178
232
60
193
153
127
272
81
98
233
121
100
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.

Live cameras

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Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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