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 →
Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
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.
| Date | Weather | Snow (cm) | Low / high (°C) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 10 Nov | Showers | 0 | 2 to 5 | 9 |
| Wed 11 Nov | Showers | 0 | 2 to 5 | 8 |
| Thu 12 Nov | Snow | 2 | 1 to 3 | 6 |
| Fri 13 Nov | Snow | 2 | −2 to 2 | 9 |
| Sat 14 Nov | Partly cloudy | 0 | −7 to 1 | 9 |
| Sun 15 Nov | Cloudy | 0 | −5 to 2 | 15 |
| Mon 16 Nov | Rain | 0 | 1 to 3 | 18 |
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
Pontresina is a ski area in Switzerland, at about 2,077 m. Within 2.5 km of its centre the map shows 1 marked run and 2 lifts (about 0.3 km of piste).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 197 cm of snowfall a season, 1,174th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 211th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (307 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (113 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (52 and 52 cm on average).
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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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Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Moritz | 6.1 km | 210 cm | 1057 |
| Samedan (St. Moritz) | 6.5 km | 201 cm | 1140 |
| Corviglia | 7.6 km | 210 cm | 1057 |
| Diavolezza-Lagalb | 8.3 km | 201 cm | 1140 |
| Müsella – La Punt | 9.2 km | 190 cm | 1240 |
The most snow falls in December. March brings 94% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 49 cm, less than the median of 60 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 197 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 113 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 307 cm (2.7 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
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