Romania

Ski Varság

12 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
2°C
Max wind
8 km/h
Elevation
972–1,139 m
Across
0.9 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Rain 0 −2 to 6 8
Wed 11 Nov Rain 0 0 to 6 12
Thu 12 Nov Rain 0 4 to 9 12
Fri 13 Nov Rain 0 7 to 13 20
Sat 14 Nov Snow showers 4 −2 to 9 18
Sun 15 Nov Fog 0 −5 to 0 6
Mon 16 Nov Clear 0 −7 to 5 7

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Ski Varság, in Romania, runs from 972 m at the base to 1,139 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 95 cm of snowfall a season, 2,424th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 21st in Romania. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (137 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (61 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (28 and 28 cm on average).

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
0.8km
Lifts
1
Vertical
167m
Top 1,139 m · base 972 m

Run map

Intermediate 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 map0.8 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 2%
East 0%
South 0%
West 97%

Only 2% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (97%).

By difficulty

Intermediate 1 · 0.8 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift1

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.

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
95cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
61cm
The middle winter of the 12: 90 cm. The best: 137 cm.
World rank
2424
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
21
of 27 in Romania
Elevation rank
17
Highest to lowest, of 27 in Romania. The centre point sits at 1,052 m, 118 m below 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
Bogdan14.0 km112 cm2208
Havas Bucsin14.0 km130 cm1954
Pârtia de schi Veresvirág15.0 km77 cm2614
Bujdosó15.0 km130 cm1954
Pârtia de schi Toplița41.0 km79 cm2595

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings 64% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Romania (69%). In amount, March brings 18 cm, less than the median of 23 cm.

28cm
Dec
28cm
Jan
22cm
Feb
18cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 95 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 61 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 137 cm (2.2 times as much).

92
61
74
137
129
80
112
122
87
96
73
78
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.

Map

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

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