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Verbier

ヴェルビエ
12 / 100 Powder Score
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Verbier is a ski area in Valais, Switzerland. It runs from 1500 m at the base to 3330 m at the summit. Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 79 marked runs and 14 lifts, totalling about 27 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 281 cm of snowfall a season, 567th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 283 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
12.1℃
Max wind
9.5km/h
Elevation
1500–3330m

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 9.1 / 16.3 9.5
☁️ 28 Sept 0 10.2 / 17.3 9.9
☁️ 29 Sept 0 11.4 / 16.7 8.4
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 10.4 / 13.3 5.9
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 5.7 / 10.9 5.4
⛈️ 2 Oct 0 5.8 / 11.7 10.6
🌧️ 3 Oct 0 6.1 / 13 12.8

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.

The figures are for the whole of “4 Vallées – Verbier/La Tzoumaz/Nendaz/Veysonnaz/Thyon”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
352
Run length
175km
Lifts
77
Vertical
2,396m
Top 3,301 m · base 905 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedFreerideOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map4.2 km
Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 33%
East 25%
South 17%
West 26%

58% 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 1
Easy 150
Intermediate 157
Advanced 28
Freeride 13
Other 3

Lift types

  • Platter19
  • Chairlift17
  • Gondola12
  • Magic carpet9
  • T-bar6
  • Cable car6
  • Mixed gondola/chair4
  • Rope tow2
  • Drag lift1
  • Funicular1

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.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
281 cm
per season
Range over three winters
40 cm
258–298 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
567
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
96
of 287 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
23
Highest to lowest, of 287 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 2,200 m, 763 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
4 Vallées – Verbier/La Tzoumaz/Nendaz/Veysonnaz/Thyon5.5 km312 cm425
Lourtier5.9 km236 cm842
Champex-Lac12 km388 cm189
Ovronnaz14 km319 cm398
Vichères-Bavon14 km388 cm189

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Switzerland (79%). In amount, March brings 78 cm, more than the median of 62 cm.

98cm
Dec
91cm
Jan
69cm
Feb
78cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 9 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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