Austria

Gargellen

10 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Cloudy
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Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
7°C
Max wind
11 km/h
Elevation
1,427–2,272 m
Across
4.0 km

Updated: 14 Oct 2026, 09:19

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 ↗

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Wed 14 Oct Showers 0 5 to 10 10
Thu 15 Oct Cloudy 0 5 to 13 11
Fri 16 Oct Cloudy 0 5 to 14 8
Sat 17 Oct Drizzle 0 3 to 10 8
Sun 18 Oct Snow 1 0 to 7 8
Mon 19 Oct Partly cloudy 0 5 to 14 11
Tue 20 Oct Cloudy 0 5 to 11 11

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
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

Gargellen, in Austria, runs from 1,427 m at the base to 2,272 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.0 km across, with 52 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 27 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 312 cm of snowfall a season, 439th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 20th in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (458 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (214 cm). March still brings 77 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

The nearest city of any size is Zurich, about 113 km away in a straight line. Below are links to its official live camera.

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
52
Run length
27km
Lifts
8
Vertical
845m
Top 2,272 m · base 1,427 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 map2.4 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 24%
East 62%
South 12%
West 2%

86% 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 40 · 19.4 km
Intermediate 8 · 4.9 km
Advanced 3 · 2.1 km

Lift types

  • Platter3
  • Chairlift3
  • T-bar1
  • Gondola1

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

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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
312cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
214cm
The middle winter of the 12: 298 cm. The best: 458 cm.
World rank
439
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
20
of 243 in Austria
Elevation rank
36
Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 1,915 m, 574 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
Madrisa5.9 km301 cm476
Junker - St. Antönien7.7 km290 cm521
Silvretta Montafon9.7 km324 cm387
Skilift Selfranga11.0 km269 cm627
Pany11.0 km276 cm589

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 77 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

79cm
Dec
91cm
Jan
67cm
Feb
77cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 312 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 214 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 458 cm (2.1 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25.

305
291
235
392
458
317
369
291
236
422
214
215
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.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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