Italy

Prato Nevoso

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
231cm
Elevation
1,461–1,921 m
Across
3.4 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. Snow report on the official site ↗

Prato Nevoso, in Italy, runs from 1,461 m at the base to 1,921 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.4 km across, with 40 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 21 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 231 cm of snowfall a season, 865th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 33rd in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (431 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (85 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (52 and 47 cm on average).

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
231cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
85cm
A typical winter: 195 cm. The best: 431 cm.
World rank
865
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
33
of 177 in Italy
Elevation rank
96
Highest to lowest, of 177 in Italy. The centre point sits at 1,579 m, 65 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Artesina2.7 km252 cm712
Frabosa Ski3.4 km225 cm913
Lurisia – Monte Pigna7.4 km252 cm712
Sangiacomo Cardini8.3 km217 cm978
Centro Fondo Marguareis9.8 km178 cm1335

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
40
Run length
21km
Lifts
7
Vertical
460m
Top 1,921 m · base 1,461 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map2.2 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 32%
East 18%
South 6%
West 43%

50% 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 23 · 10.3 km
Intermediate 12 · 8.9 km
Advanced 5 · 2.1 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Magic carpet3
  • 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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 63 cm, more than the median of 48 cm.

52cm
Dec
47cm
Jan
68cm
Feb
63cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 231 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 85 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 431 cm (5.1 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2021/22: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

258
178
175
431
93
126
248
85
203
372
187
410
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

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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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.

Official piste map ↗

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