Italy

Val di Fassa

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
140cm

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
1,331–2,435 m
Across
17 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 di Fassa, in Italy, runs from 1,331 m at the base to 2,435 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 17 km across, with 127 marked runs and 37 lifts (about 78 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 140 cm of snowfall a season, 1,801st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 130th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (261 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (65 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (38 and 28 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
140cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
65cm
The middle winter of the 12: 120 cm. The best: 261 cm.
World rank
1801
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
130
of 177 in Italy
Elevation rank
50
Highest to lowest, of 177 in Italy. The centre point sits at 1,922 m, 278 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Buffaure - Ciampac2.7 km149 cm1677
Belvedere - Col Rodella - Passo Pordoi4.4 km171 cm1407
Vigo di Fassa - Ciampedie6.0 km149 cm1677
Arabba9.8 km170 cm1416
Marmolada12.0 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
127
Run length
78km
Lifts
37
Vertical
1,105m
Top 2,435 m · base 1,331 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 map4.1 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 29%
East 30%
South 13%
West 28%

59% 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 1 · 0.4 km
Easy 30 · 13.2 km
Intermediate 79 · 47.3 km
Advanced 11 · 9.7 km
Other 6 · 7.6 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift20
  • Gondola8
  • Platter5
  • Cable car2
  • Magic carpet2

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

The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 40 cm, less than the median of 48 cm.

38cm
Dec
28cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
40cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 140 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 65 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 261 cm (4.0 times as much). For 55% of the 177 ski areas in Italy the leanest winter was 2021/22; here it was a different one.

119
176
65
196
119
121
261
66
89
249
120
102
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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

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