Spain

Estació d'esquí de la Molina

Off season

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Typical snowfall
82cm

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
1,653–2,518 m
Across
4.6 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.

Estació d'esquí de la Molina, in Spain, runs from 1,653 m at the base to 2,518 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.6 km across, with 64 marked runs and 17 lifts (about 49 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 82 cm of snowfall a season, 2,562nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 32nd in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (181 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (34 cm). March still brings 23 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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
82cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
34cm
The middle winter of the 12: 68 cm. The best: 181 cm.
World rank
2562
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
32
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
6
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 2,001 m, 219 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
Estació d'esquí de Masella3.5 km109 cm2250
Cambre d'Aze22.0 km173 cm1389
Font-Romeu Pyrénées 200024.0 km208 cm1070
La Quillane28.0 km176 cm1356
Porte Puymorens28.0 km247 cm757

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
64
Run length
49km
Lifts
17
Vertical
866m
Top 2,518 m · base 1,653 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 map2.9 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 47%
East 40%
South 3%
West 10%

87% 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 15 · 6.9 km
Easy 25 · 19.1 km
Intermediate 19 · 17.9 km
Advanced 5 · 4.7 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift8
  • Magic carpet4
  • Drag lift3
  • Gondola2

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 January. March brings 82% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Spain (102%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 23 cm, less than the median of 52 cm.

15cm
Dec
28cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
23cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 82 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 34 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 181 cm (5.3 times as much). For 38% of the 34 ski areas in Spain the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

56
36
100
170
34
106
45
78
41
82
58
181
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

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

Map

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

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