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Bad Gastein

AT·Salzburg
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Weeks 6–9

Typically -4.7°C · 25cm fresh / week · powder day 38% · mixed 64%

Top elev.
2686m
Base elev.
1100m
Pistes
88km
Lifts
47
Piste mix74km mapped
Blue45%
Red48%
Black5%
Freeride2%
Bad Gastein
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COMPOSITE SCORE
60
Snow67
Typically 125cm
Typical depth125cm
91cm153cm
Travel56
From your origin
Size70
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 6–9

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2040m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -4.7°C, with 25cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 38% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
2.2 days/week
spring-like in 27% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
2.4 m/s
peaks to 4 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1177 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
38%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
2.6 days
per week
Storm
26%
of years
Bluebird
9%
of years
Thaw
1%
of years
Mixed
64%
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+
100%
Depth
125cm
Temperature
-4.7°C
Fresh snow
25cm
Snow line
1178m
Wind
2.4 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Bad Gastein's typical base has sat near 102cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 152cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 42m a decade.

101cm
116cm
109cm
103cm
100cm
97cm
97cm
88cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
52–203cm

Across single winters (2025–26 to 1964–65).

Typical base
−13cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Salzburg region moved −18cm.

Freezing level
+42m

Per decade. 1137m in 1950–1959, 1442m 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
Innsbruck (INN)180 min
Munich (MUC)176 min
Salzburg (SZG)79 min
Venice Marco Polo (VCE)283 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.

  • 149geosphere
  • 213geosphere