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San Domenico di Varzo

12 / 100 Powder Score
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San Domenico di Varzo is a ski area in Italy. The terrain spans roughly 2111–2111 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 13 km². Within 3.2 km of the centre, the map shows 55 marked runs and 7 lifts, totalling about 21 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 378 cm of snowfall a season, 218th (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. The nearest city of any size is Como, about 84 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 256 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
9.9℃
Max wind
7.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
2111–2111m
Area
13km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 7.8 / 12.6 7.2
☁️ 28 Sept 0 7.3 / 13.3 8.6
🌫️ 29 Sept 0 5.5 / 11.3 9.9
🌫️ 30 Sept 0 6.1 / 7.7 8.2
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 5.9 / 8.1 8.1
🌫️ 2 Oct 0 5.8 / 9.4 8.1
🌫️ 3 Oct 0 4.7 / 10.1 9.9

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Skiarea San Domenico”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
45
Run length
20km
Lifts
7
Vertical
1,116m
Top 2,490 m · base 1,374 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.9 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 29%
East 3%
South 18%
West 51%

Only 32% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 5
Easy 14
Intermediate 17
Advanced 8
Expert 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift4
  • Magic carpet2
  • 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.

Live Cameras

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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
378 cm
per season
Range over three winters
234 cm
291–525 cm. The best winter was 1.8x the worst.
World rank
218
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
8
of 188 in Italy
Elevation rank
26
Highest to lowest, of 188 in Italy. The centre point sits at 2,111 m, 457 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
Alpe Devero6.5 km378 cm218
Wilern12 km378 cm218
Rothwald/Wasenalp12 km379 cm216
Rosswald13 km338 cm341
Domobianca18 km448 cm118

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 105 cm, more than the median of 49 cm.

83cm
Dec
79cm
Jan
62cm
Feb
105cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 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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