Italy

Area Sciistica Schia Monte Caio

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
101cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
1,199–1,488 m
Across
2.4 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 ↗

Area Sciistica Schia Monte Caio, in Italy, runs from 1,199 m at the base to 1,488 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.4 km across, with 14 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 101 cm of snowfall a season, 2,360th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 158th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (217 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (37 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (28 and 22 cm on average).

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
101cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
37cm
The middle winter of the 12: 86 cm. The best: 217 cm.
World rank
2360
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
158
of 177 in Italy
Elevation rank
152
Highest to lowest, of 177 in Italy. The centre point sits at 1,290 m, 354 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Area Sciistica Pratizzano12.0 km101 cmsame grid cell2360
Area Sciistica Ventasso Laghi13.0 km107 cm2287
Area Sciistica Pratospilla14.0 km68 cm2677
Area sciistica lago Pranda19.0 km100 cm2370
Area Sciistica Cerreto Laghi21.0 km100 cm2370

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
14
Run length
12km
Lifts
4
Vertical
289m
Top 1,488 m · base 1,199 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.6 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 59%
East 32%
South 1%
West 8%

91% 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

Novice 1 · 0.3 km
Easy 2 · 1.6 km
Intermediate 9 · 8.3 km
Advanced 2 · 2.1 km

Lift types

  • Platter1
  • Drag lift1
  • Chairlift1
  • 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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in February. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Italy (116%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 16 cm, less than the median of 48 cm.

28cm
Dec
22cm
Jan
35cm
Feb
16cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 101 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 37 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 217 cm (5.9 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy the leanest winter was 2021/22; here it was a different one.

113
49
37
217
67
54
205
65
118
72
110
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 ↗

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