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Samedan (St. Moritz)

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Samedan (St. Moritz) is a ski area in Switzerland. It sits at about 1,825 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.7 km². Within 2.3 km of the centre, the map shows 5 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 4.9 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 193 cm of snowfall a season, 1139th (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. 243 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
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Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
11.1℃
Max wind
14.3km/h
Elevation
1,825m
Area
0.7km²

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. 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 5.5 / 19.2 14.3
🌤️ 28 Sept 0 4.6 / 19.3 20
☁️ 29 Sept 0 7.8 / 19.2 9.7
☁️ 30 Sept 0 7.9 / 17.1 9.2
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 9.6 / 12.8 7
⛈️ 2 Oct 0 9.4 / 13.6 5.4
☁️ 3 Oct 0 6.9 / 15.8 8.9

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.3 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
5
Lifts
2
Mapped length
4.9km

By difficulty

Easy 5

Lift types

  • T-bar1
  • Magic carpet1

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.

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

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
193 cm
per season
Range over three winters
176 cm
131–307 cm. The best winter was 2.3x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
1139
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
190
of 287 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
77
Highest to lowest, of 287 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,825 m, 388 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
Corviglia4.7 km219 cm935
St. Moritz5.5 km219 cm935
Müsella – La Punt6.4 km191 cm1159
Pontresina6.5 km193 cm1139
St. Moritz – Zuoz10 km191 cm1159

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, 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 (79%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 50 cm, less than the median of 62 cm.

65cm
Dec
53cm
Jan
39cm
Feb
50cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 9 winters

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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