Switzerland

Realp

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
336cm

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 →

Elevation
1,546–1,642 m
Across
0.5 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 ↗

Realp, in Switzerland, runs from 1,546 m at the base to 1,642 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 336 cm of snowfall a season, 322nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 38th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (534 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (238 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 95 cm.

The nearest city of any size is Luzern, about 53 km away in a straight line.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
336cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
238cm
The middle winter of the 12: 310 cm. The best: 534 cm.
World rank
322
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
38
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
101
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,597 m, 160 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
Cioss Prato12.0 km306 cm458
Airolo - Pesciüm13.0 km297 cm490
Andermatt+Disentis+Sedrun18.0 km325 cm383
Münster-Geschinen21.0 km318 cm408
Mogno23.0 km229 cm885

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
1
Run length
0.6km
Lifts
1
Vertical
96m
Top 1,642 m · base 1,546 m

Run map

Easy 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 map0.6 km
Steepest pitch15°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 9%
East 79%
South 4%
West 8%

88% 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

Easy 1 · 0.6 km

Lift types

  • T-bar1

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

The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 95 cm, more than the median of 60 cm.

86cm
Dec
88cm
Jan
68cm
Feb
95cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 336 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 238 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 534 cm (2.2 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

317
294
259
513
349
332
371
257
238
534
262
302
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.

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.

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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