United States · Colorado

Vail

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10 / 100 Powder Score

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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: 3°C
Max wind: 14 km/h
Elevation: 2,452–3,517 m

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. Snow report on the official site ↗

7-day outlook

Date	Weather	Snow (cm)	Low / high (°C)	Wind (km/h)
Mon 9 Nov	Partly cloudy	0	−3 to 11	13
Tue 10 Nov	Cloudy	0	−3 to 7	14
Wed 11 Nov	Cloudy	0	−3 to 8	11
Thu 12 Nov	Clear	0	−4 to 10	10
Fri 13 Nov	Cloudy	0	−3 to 10	11
Sat 14 Nov	Cloudy	0	−4 to 8	7
Sun 15 Nov	Snow showers	7	−10 to 0	9

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

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

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).

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.

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

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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

Videos

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

By: Vail · 10 Nov

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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

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

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 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
Beaver Creek	15.0 km	189 cm	1248
Copper Mountain	26.0 km	157 cm	1578
Breckenridge	31.0 km	146 cm	1714
Ski Cooper	33.0 km	146 cm	1714
Keystone	39.0 km	161 cm	1527

When it falls, and how winters differ

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 2015/16; here it was a different one.

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 ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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