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Vail

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8 / 100 Powder Score
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Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
8cm
Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
6°C
Max wind
25 km/h
Elevation
2,452–3,517 m

Updated: 12 Oct 2026, 09:34

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 ↗

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Sun 11 Oct Cloudy 0 4 to 15 27
Mon 12 Oct Cloudy 0 2 to 9 25
Tue 13 Oct Snow showers 1 −3 to 6 21
Wed 14 Oct Snow showers 8 −3 to 0 10
Thu 15 Oct Drizzle 0 −9 to 6 12
Fri 16 Oct Clear 0 −6 to 9 12
Sat 17 Oct Clear 0 −5 to 11 10

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
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

Vail, in Colorado, United States, runs from 2,452 m at the base to 3,517 m at the top. The map shows 241 marked runs and 32 lifts (about 205 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 178 cm of snowfall a season, 1,335th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 115th in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (124 cm), reached 70% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (44 and 41 cm on average).

Below are links to a road camera on the way up.

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
32
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.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

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; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 4 · 0.8 km
Easy 45 · 48.1 km
Intermediate 81 · 73.8 km
Advanced 110 · 81 km
Freeride 1 · 1.2 km

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.

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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

See the snow in motion

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

By: Vail · 10 Nov

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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
178cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
124cm
The middle winter of the 12: 174 cm. The best: 237 cm.
World rank
1335
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
115
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
20
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,100 m, 2,572 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Beaver Creek15.0 km189 cm1248
Copper Mountain26.0 km157 cm1578
Breckenridge31.0 km146 cm1714
Ski Cooper33.0 km146 cm1714
Keystone39.0 km161 cm1527

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

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 178 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 124 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 237 cm (1.9 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

124
166
208
165
211
176
172
191
237
209
145
133
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.

Official piste map ↗

Getting there

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

More places to look

Booking.com ↗Agoda ↗

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