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Pal-Arinsal

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Pal-Arinsal is a ski area in Spain. The terrain spans roughly 1836–1836 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 7.2 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 183 cm of snowfall a season, 1241st (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 34 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
14.5℃
Max wind
10.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
1836–1836m
Area
7.2km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 27 Sept 0 9.9 / 21.1 10.6
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 9.3 / 18.2 13.1
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 9.6 / 14.2 11
☁️ 30 Sept 0 7.6 / 16.5 7.2
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 9.2 / 15.7 9.2
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 7.8 / 13.4 6.6
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 6.3 / 15.4 7.9

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Pal-Arinsal”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
63
Run length
39km
Lifts
31
Vertical
987m
Top 2,541 m · base 1,554 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.4 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 32%
East 57%
South 2%
West 10%

89% 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 9
Easy 28
Intermediate 20
Advanced 4
Other 2

Lift types

  • Chairlift12
  • Magic carpet9
  • Drag lift6
  • Gondola2
  • Platter1
  • Cable car1

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.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
183 cm
per season
Range over three winters
75 cm
155–230 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
1241
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
18
of 35 in Spain
Elevation rank
17
Highest to lowest, of 35 in Spain. The centre point sits at 1,836 m, 6 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Pal-Arinsal0.0 km183 cm1241
Ordino-Arcalís8.5 km310 cm439
Goulier21 km306 cm459
Estació d'esquí Tavascan25 km277 cm592
Port Ainé26 km111 cm2031

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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