No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
- Elevation
- 1,537–2,877 m
- Across
- 6.6 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 ↗
Skiarea Valchiavenna, in Italy, runs from 1,537 m at the base to 2,877 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 6.6 km across, with 71 marked runs and 15 lifts (about 35 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 282 cm of snowfall a season, 561st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 14th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (481 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (149 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (68 and 64 cm on average).
Below are links to its official live camera.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Splügen | 13.0 km | 259 cm | 671 |
| Avers | 13.0 km | 241 cm | 795 |
| Pian Cales / San Bernardino | 15.0 km | 242 cm | 787 |
| Confin / San Bernardino | 17.0 km | 252 cm | 712 |
| Bivio | 20.0 km | 214 cm | 1008 |
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.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
50% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift9
- Funicular3
- Gondola1
- Cable car1
- Magic carpet1
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
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 86 cm, more than the median of 48 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 282 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 149 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 481 cm (3.2 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2021/22.
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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More places to look
Guides covering Italy
- How Much Does Snowfall Change From One Winter to the Next? Country by Country Over twelve winters, the typical Japanese ski area's best winter was 2.3 times its worst. In Italy and Chile it was 4.6 times, in New Zealand 4.2. Canada, Finland and Sweden come out steadier than Japan.