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Andermatt

traditionalquietBackcountry / off-piste
Weeks 45–46

Typically -0.1°C · 39cm fresh / week · powder day 57% · mixed 25%

Top elev.
2961m
Base elev.
1444m
Pistes
180km
Lifts
33
Piste mix70km mapped
Green1%
Blue40%
Red39%
Black11%
Double-black1%
Freeride8%
COMPOSITE SCORE
47
Snow45
Typically 55cm
Typical depth55cm
17cm84cm
Travel31
From your origin
Size81
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 45–46

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2665m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -0.1°C, with 39cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 57% of the time. Other weeks run mixed or warm and wet.

Icy mornings
3.3 days/week
spring-like in 45% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
16.7 m/s
peaks to 26 m/s
Typical Freezing level
2186 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
57%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
5.3 days
per week
Storm
50%
of years
Bluebird
2%
of years
Thaw
23%
of years
Mixed
25%
of years
Climatology

What a season here looks like

Each track shows the typical range across 29 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.

Reliability60cm+
43%
Depth
55cm
Temperature
-0.1°C
Fresh snow
39cm
Snow line
2187m
Wind
16.7 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Andermatt's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 2cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 37m a decade.

75cm
74cm
74cm
69cm
69cm
70cm
70cm
56cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
42–113cm

Across single winters (2001–02 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−19cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Other Swiss Alps region moved −29cm.

Freezing level
+37m

Per decade. 1654m in 1950–1959, 1939m now.

Calibrated reanalysis, 1950–2025. Bars are each winter's mean base, rules each decade's mean. 2020–2025 holds 6 winters, not ten. Every figure here averages a full season, so none of them will match the readings for your chosen weeks above.

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Transfers

Transfers

AirportDriveTrain
Bern (BRN)133 min
Friedrichshafen (FDH)178 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)144 min
Zürich (ZRH)124 min
Method & sources

We weigh snow reliability against this resort's own history, add live conditions where we have them, then adjust for how hard the trip is for your group.

  1. 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
  2. 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
  3. 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 30 winters.
  4. 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
  5. 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
  6. 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources

Snow data sources

Ground stations the score is based on.

  • GOS3slf
  • URS2slf