Italy

Val Comelico - Padola

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
172cm
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

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. 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 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
Auronzo di Cadore9.0 km181 cm1309
Drei Zinnen - Tre Cime10.0 km181 cm1309
Kartitsch / St. Oswald12.0 km190 cm1240
Misurina15.0 km190 cm1240
Sillian - Hochpustertal15.0 km180 cm1320

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
42
Run length
23km
Lifts
6
Vertical
730m
Top 1,941 m · base 1,211 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map4.4 km
Steepest pitch36°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 23%
East 63%
South 12%
West 1%

86% 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 5 · 0.5 km
Easy 22 · 13 km
Intermediate 6 · 4 km
Advanced 6 · 3.1 km
Other 3 · 2.7 km

Lift types

  • Magic carpet3
  • Platter2
  • Chairlift1

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, 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.

52cm
Dec
36cm
Jan
43cm
Feb
42cm
Mar
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 31% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

157
234
71
251
137
136
435
73
113
223
122
117
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.

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

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

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