Malesco
No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
- Elevation
- 794–911 m
- Across
- 0.4 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.
Malesco, in Italy, runs from 794 m at the base to 911 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 182 cm of snowfall a season, 1,298th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 87th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (366 cm), brought more than 8 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (45 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 60 cm.
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craveggia - Piana di Vigezzo | 4.3 km | 225 cm | 913 |
| Druogno | 5.8 km | 182 cmsame grid cell | 1298 |
| Domobianca | 20.0 km | 341 cm | 303 |
| Forcora Ski | 22.0 km | 179 cm | 1330 |
| Bosco Gurin – Grossalp | 22.0 km | 296 cm | 496 |
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
100% 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
Lift types
- Platter1
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
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 48 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 182 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 45 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 366 cm (8.1 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2021/22.
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.
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
Map
The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
More places to look
Guides covering Italy
- How Much Does Snowfall Change From One Winter to the Next? Country by Country Over twelve winters, the typical Japanese ski area's best winter was 2.3 times its worst. In Italy and Chile it was 4.6 times, in New Zealand 4.2. Canada, Finland and Sweden come out steadier than Japan.