Slovakia

Štrbské Pleso

21 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Clear
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
3cm

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
3 cm
Temperature
−1°C
Max wind
19 km/h
Elevation
1,377–1,822 m
Across
4.4 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 Snow 3 −2 to 1 19
Wed 11 Nov Drizzle 0 −2 to 5 19
Thu 12 Nov Rain 0 2 to 6 16
Fri 13 Nov Snow 0 −4 to 5 11
Sat 14 Nov Fog 0 −7 to −3 11
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −6 to 1 9
Mon 16 Nov Drizzle 0 −6 to 3 9

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 7/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 8/10
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

Štrbské Pleso, in Slovakia, runs from 1,377 m at the base to 1,822 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.4 km across, with 13 marked runs and 7 lifts (about 7.2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 225 cm of snowfall a season, 913th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Slovakia. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (339 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (113 cm). February is usually the snowiest month, with about 66 cm.

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
13
Run length
7.2km
Lifts
7
Vertical
445m
Top 1,822 m · base 1,377 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 map1.3 km
Steepest pitch19°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%
East 41%
South 55%
West 2%

Only 44% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (55%).

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.6 km
Easy 5 · 2.3 km
Intermediate 7 · 4.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift4
  • Platter2
  • 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.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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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

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
225cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
113cm
The middle winter of the 12: 224 cm. The best: 339 cm.
World rank
913
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
1
of 87 in Slovakia
Elevation rank
3
Highest to lowest, of 87 in Slovakia. The centre point sits at 1,441 m, 656 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
Snowpark Lučivná12.0 km79 cm2595
Skitatry Zadná Lopušná dolina13.0 km79 cm2595
Kasprowy Wierch13.0 km222 cm934
Greguška Ski – Pod lesom14.0 km93 cm2449
Tatranská Lomnica15.0 km167 cm1449

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in February. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Slovakia (40%). In amount, March brings 39 cm, more than the median of 12 cm.

56cm
Dec
64cm
Jan
66cm
Feb
39cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 225 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 113 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 339 cm (3.0 times as much). For 74% of the 87 ski areas in Slovakia the leanest winter was 2024/25; here it was a different one.

135
113
187
224
301
278
223
339
337
297
123
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.

Map

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

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