Switzerland

Scuol Motta Naluns

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
196cm

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
1,294–2,792 m
Across
9.5 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 ↗

Scuol Motta Naluns, in Switzerland, runs from 1,294 m at the base to 2,792 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 9.5 km across, with 56 marked runs and 14 lifts (about 43 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 196 cm of snowfall a season, 1,184th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 213th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (298 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (119 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (56 and 53 cm on average).

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
196cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
119cm
The middle winter of the 12: 192 cm. The best: 298 cm.
World rank
1184
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
213
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
53
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,967 m, 530 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
Schöneben - Belpiano17.0 km178 cm1335
Ischgl-Samnaun17.0 km243 cm780
Ischgl-Samnaun17.0 km243 cm780
Silvretta-Bielerhöhe18.0 km303 cm466
Mathon19.0 km310 cm447

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
56
Run length
43km
Lifts
14
Vertical
1,498m
Top 2,792 m · base 1,294 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map6.2 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 8%
East 38%
South 41%
West 13%

Only 46% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (41%).

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.9 km
Easy 32 · 17.5 km
Intermediate 19 · 21.7 km
Advanced 4 · 3.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift6
  • Magic carpet4
  • T-bar3
  • 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

The most snow falls in December. March brings 87% 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 46 cm, less than the median of 60 cm.

56cm
Dec
53cm
Jan
42cm
Feb
46cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 196 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 119 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 298 cm (2.5 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

195
197
128
256
272
189
261
155
119
298
142
142
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

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Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

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