Georgia

Bakuriani

35 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
5cm
Next 72h
0cm

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 →

Snow 24h
2 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
−3°C
Max wind
10 km/h
Elevation
1,770–2,301 m
Across
8.0 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Snow 1 −7 to 0 10
Wed 11 Nov Cloudy 0 −5 to 1 10
Thu 12 Nov Snow 0 −2 to 3 11
Fri 13 Nov Cloudy 0 1 to 6 11
Sat 14 Nov Cloudy 0 4 to 9 11
Sun 15 Nov Showers 0 3 to 9 11
Mon 16 Nov Snow 3 −3 to 3 9

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 12/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 11/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Bakuriani, in Georgia, runs from 1,770 m at the base to 2,301 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 8.0 km across, with 9 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 8.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 180 cm of snowfall a season, 1,320th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in Georgia. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (136 cm), reached 76% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (42 and 38 cm on average).

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Crystal”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
9
Run length
8.5km
Lifts
4
Vertical
531m
Top 2,301 m · base 1,770 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate 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 map2.1 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 20%
East 4%
South 4%
West 73%

Only 24% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (73%).

By difficulty

Easy 5 · 4.6 km
Intermediate 4 · 3.9 km

Lift types

  • Gondola1
  • Platter1
  • Drag lift1
  • Chairlift1

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

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
180cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
136cm
The middle winter of the 12: 185 cm. The best: 232 cm.
World rank
1320
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
4
of 5 in Georgia
Elevation rank
4
Highest to lowest, of 5 in Georgia. The centre point sits at 2,021 m, 42 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
Didveli2.0 km180 cmsame grid cell1320
Kokhta - Mitarbi2.3 km197 cm1174

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 57 cm, about the same as the median of 59 cm.

42cm
Dec
38cm
Jan
43cm
Feb
57cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 180 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 136 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 232 cm (1.7 times as much).

136
197
157
202
183
146
186
199
169
204
153
232
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.

Map

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

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