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Damüls-Mellau

AT·Vorarlbergless snow sure
traditionalquietfamily-friendly
Weeks 6–9

Typically -3.2°C · 26cm fresh / week · powder day 48% · mixed 53%

Top elev.
2050m
Base elev.
1430m
Pistes
109km
Lifts
29
Piste mix104km mapped
Green5%
Blue34%
Red32%
Black19%
Double-black7%
Other3%
COMPOSITE SCORE
60
Snow69
Typically 105cm
Typical depth105cm
78cm136cm
Travel52
From your origin
Size74
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 ~1675m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -3.2°C, with 26cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 48% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
4.4 days/week
spring-like in 68% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
2.2 m/s
peaks to 4 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1254 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
48%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
1.4 days
per week
Storm
31%
of years
Bluebird
12%
of years
Thaw
5%
of years
Mixed
53%
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+
92%
Depth
105cm
Temperature
-3.2°C
Fresh snow
26cm
Snow line
1255m
Wind
2.2 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Damüls-Mellau's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 5cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 52m a decade.

89cm
92cm
98cm
87cm
86cm
74cm
71cm
57cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
23–180cm

Across single winters (1989–90 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−32cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025.

Freezing level
+52m

Per decade. 1143m in 1950–1959, 1507m 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
Friedrichshafen (FDH)87 min
Innsbruck (INN)135 min
Munich (MUC)187 min
Zürich (ZRH)154 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.

  • 172geosphere
  • 11116geosphere