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Typical snowfall
172cm
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 →
Elevation
1,211–1,941 m
Across
8.5 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 ↗
Val Comelico - Padola, in Italy, runs from 1,211 m at the base to 1,941 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 8.5 km across, with 42 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 23 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 172 cm of snowfall a season, 1,401st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 101st in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (435 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (71 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (52 and 36 cm on average).
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
172cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
71cm
The middle winter of the 12: 137 cm. The best: 435 cm.
World rank
1401
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
101
of 177 in Italy
Elevation rank
140
Highest to lowest, of 177 in Italy. The centre point sits at 1,354 m, 290 m below 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.
The most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 42 cm, about the same as the median of 48 cm.
52cmDec
36cmJan
43cmFeb
42cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 172 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 71 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 435 cm (6.1 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy the leanest winter was 2021/22; here it was a different one.
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.