Italy

Passo Stelvio

Off season
Official site

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.

Typical snowfall
173cm
Elevation
2,769–3,355 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Passo Stelvio, in Italy, runs from 2,769 m at the base to 3,355 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.6 km across, with 35 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 17 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 173 cm of snowfall a season, 1,389th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 100th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (301 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (104 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (50 and 41 cm on average).

Below are links to its official live camera.

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
173cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
104cm
The middle winter of the 12: 156 cm. The best: 301 cm.
World rank
1389
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
100
of 177 in Italy
Elevation rank
1
Highest to lowest, of 177 in Italy. The centre point sits at 3,094 m, 1,450 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
Trafoi6.5 km160 cm1541
Bormio Ski9.5 km177 cm1348
Sulden am Ortler - Solda al Ortles10.0 km159 cm1553
Cima Piazzi – San Colombano12.0 km227 cm899
Santa Caterina13.0 km179 cm1330

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
35
Run length
17km
Lifts
8
Vertical
587m
Top 3,355 m · base 2,769 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.5 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8°

Which way the slopes face

North 67%
East 2%
South 2%
West 30%

69% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Easy 33 · 16.2 km
Intermediate 2 · 1.1 km

Lift types

  • Platter2
  • Cable car2
  • Drag lift2
  • Magic carpet2

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

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 43 cm, about the same as the median of 48 cm.

50cm
Dec
41cm
Jan
39cm
Feb
43cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 173 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 104 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 301 cm (2.9 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2021/22.

149
159
110
234
193
158
286
104
116
301
153
114
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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

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