Spain

Espot Esquí

12 / 100 Powder Score
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Snow 48h
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Next 72h
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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
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
6°C
Max wind
8 km/h
Elevation
1,511–2,290 m
Across
4.1 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 Rain 0 3 to 10 8
Wed 11 Nov Rain 0 5 to 10 19
Thu 12 Nov Rain 0 3 to 11 17
Fri 13 Nov Drizzle 0 0 to 7 6
Sat 14 Nov Drizzle 0 −1 to 6 7
Sun 15 Nov Drizzle 0 2 to 9 10
Mon 16 Nov Snow showers 2 1 to 4 16

Score breakdown

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

Espot Esquí, in Spain, runs from 1,511 m at the base to 2,290 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.1 km across, with 24 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 20 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 214 cm of snowfall a season, 1,008th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 14th in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (358 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (102 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 60 cm.

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
24
Run length
20km
Lifts
6
Vertical
780m
Top 2,290 m · base 1,511 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 map2.1 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 67%
East 28%
South 2%
West 3%

95% 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 2 · 1.1 km
Easy 11 · 10.4 km
Intermediate 7 · 5.9 km
Advanced 4 · 2.7 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Magic carpet2
  • Platter1

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.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

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

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
214cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
102cm
The middle winter of the 12: 208 cm. The best: 358 cm.
World rank
1008
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
14
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
12
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 1,917 m, 135 m above 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
Port Ainé18.0 km115 cm2167
Estació d'esquí Tavascan18.0 km271 cm616
Estació d'esquí Boí-Taüll19.0 km221 cm945
Guzet31.0 km281 cm566
Pal-Arinsal32.0 km170 cm1416

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 60 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.

47cm
Dec
55cm
Jan
52cm
Feb
60cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 214 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 102 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 358 cm (3.5 times as much). For 38% of the 34 ski areas in Spain the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

182
134
251
358
142
259
177
260
102
216
200
283
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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