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Vail

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8 / 100 Powder Score

Vail is a ski area in Colorado, United States. It runs from 2500 m at the base to 3527 m at the summit. Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 87 marked runs and 13 lifts, totalling about 67 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 162 cm of snowfall a season, 1429th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 25 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

9.5℃

Max wind

20.3km/h

Elevation

2500–3527m

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 6/10

Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
🌤️ 26 Sept	2.8 / 14.6	17.7
🌦️ 27 Sept	5.6 / 15.7	20.3
🌦️ 28 Sept	3.9 / 7.9	15.1
🌦️ 29 Sept	4.1 / 13.7	9.4
☁️ 30 Sept	2.1 / 15.4	18.7
☁️ 1 Oct	1.4 / 15.1	11.7
🌤️ 2 Oct	1.4 / 15.8	13.8

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

241

Run length

205km

Lifts

Vertical

1,065m

Top 3,517 m · base 2,452 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedFreeride Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map6.3 km

Steepest pitch37°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 40%

East 12%

South 20%

West 28%

52% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 4

Easy 45

Intermediate 81

Advanced 110

Freeride 1

Lift types

Chairlift20
Magic carpet6
Platter3
Gondola2
T-bar1

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.

Roads nearbyColorado ↗Operated by: Colorado Department of Transportation

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

See the snow in motion

NEW // Ski & Ride School in the My Epic App

By: Vail · 2025-11-10

Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.

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

162 cm

per season

Range over three winters

76 cm

133–209 cm. The best winter was 1.6x the worst.

World rank

1429

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

146

of 541 in United States

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,100 m, 2,566 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Beaver Creek	15 km	176 cm	1297
Copper Mountain	26 km	147 cm	1618
Breckenridge	31 km	149 cm	1587
Ski Cooper	33 km	140 cm	1697
Keystone	39 km	171 cm	1334

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 46 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

44cm

Dec

41cm

Jan

47cm

Feb

46cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters