Bulgaria

Chepelare

18 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
3cm
Next 72h
0cm
Snow 24h
3 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
4°C
Max wind
13 km/h
Elevation
1,158–1,872 m
Across
3.4 km

Updated: 15 Oct 2026, 08:51

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)
Thu 15 Oct Cloudy 0 0 to 10 13
Fri 16 Oct Snow 0 0 to 4 11
Sat 17 Oct Cloudy 0 −1 to 6 12
Sun 18 Oct Cloudy 0 0 to 9 11
Mon 19 Oct Cloudy 0 2 to 12 12
Tue 20 Oct Fog 0 0 to 13 5
Wed 21 Oct Fog 0 2 to 14 6

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 8/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
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

Chepelare, in Bulgaria, runs from 1,158 m at the base to 1,872 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.4 km across, with 10 marked runs and 1 lift (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 133 cm of snowfall a season, 1,909th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 2nd in Bulgaria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (207 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (75 cm). March still brings 36 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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
10
Run length
12km
Lifts
1
Vertical
714m
Top 1,872 m · base 1,158 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 map3.2 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 43%
East 50%
South 2%
West 6%

93% 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

Easy 6 · 6.9 km
Intermediate 4 · 5.4 km

Lift types

  • 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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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
133cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
75cm
The middle winter of the 12: 133 cm. The best: 207 cm.
World rank
1909
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
2
of 5 in Bulgaria
Elevation rank
3
Highest to lowest, of 5 in Bulgaria. The centre point sits at 1,525 m, level with the national median of 1,525 m.

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
Pamporovo6.2 km130 cm1954
Zdravets34.0 km130 cm1954

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 36 cm, about the same as the median of 36 cm.

31cm
Dec
36cm
Jan
30cm
Feb
36cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 133 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 75 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 207 cm (2.8 times as much). For 40% of the 5 ski areas in Bulgaria, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23.

207
117
128
153
151
106
147
159
75
93
119
137
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.

More places to look

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