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Resort dossier
Bad Gastein
AT·Salzburgless snow sure
Weeks 6–9
Typically -4.8°C · 26cm fresh / week · powder day 39% · mixed 63%
Top elev.
2686m
Base elev.
1100m
Pistes
88km
Lifts
47
Piste mix74km mapped
Blue45%
Red48%
Black5%
Freeride2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
60
Snow68
Typically 125cm
Typical depth125cm
95cm151cm
Travel56
From your origin
Size70
Linked-area piste-km
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect
What to expect in weeks 6–9
Based on 40 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2040m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically mixed, around -4.8°C, with 26cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 39% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.
Icy mornings
2.0 days/week
spring-like in 24% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
2.4 m/s
peaks to 4 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1148 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
39%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
2.5 days
per week
Storm
27%
of years
Bluebird
9%
of years
Thaw
1%
of years
Mixed
63%
of years
Climatology
What a season here looks like
Each track shows the typical range across 40 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.
Reliability60cm+
100%
Depth
125cm
Temperature
-4.8°C
Fresh snow
26cm
Snow line
1149m
Wind
2.4 m/s
Transfers
Transfers
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Innsbruck (INN) | 180 min | |
| Munich (MUC) | 176 min | |
| Salzburg (SZG) | 79 min | |
| Venice Marco Polo (VCE) | 283 min |
Method & sources
The composite score weights snow reliability against the historical baseline, pulls in live conditions where available, then adjusts for how much hassle the trip actually is for your group.
- 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
- 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
- 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 35 winters.
- 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
- 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
- 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources
Snow data sources
Ground stations the score is based on.
- 149geosphere
- 213geosphere