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Davos

family-friendlytraditionaliconic-viewBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrain
Linked terrain

Only the Parsenn connects Davos to Klosters on snow. The other mountains — Jakobshorn, Rinerhorn, Pischa, Madrisa — are separate, reached by bus or train on the pass, so plan one mountain a day.

Weeks 5–8

Typically -7.2°C · 27cm fresh / week · powder day 41% · mixed 54%

Top elev.
2844m
Base elev.
1124m
Pistes
300km
Lifts
57
Piste mix81km mapped
Blue22%
Red61%
Black14%
Freeride2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
60
Snow82
Typically 137cm
Typical depth137cm
100cm160cm
Travel23
From your origin
Size71
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 5–8

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2059m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -7.2°C, with 27cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 41% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
1.7 days/week
spring-like in 17% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
13.7 m/s
peaks to 22 m/s
Typical Freezing level
869 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
41%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.8 days
per week
Storm
30%
of years
Bluebird
16%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
54%
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
137cm
Temperature
-7.2°C
Fresh snow
27cm
Snow line
870m
Wind
13.7 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Davos's typical base has sat near 142cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 165cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 44m a decade.

145cm
150cm
153cm
140cm
142cm
142cm
135cm
120cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
77–241cm

Across single winters (2016–17 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−25cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Graubünden region moved −24cm.

Freezing level
+44m

Per decade. 886m in 1950–1959, 1214m 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)150 min240 min
Zürich (ZRH)138 min165 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.

  • WFJ2slf
  • SLF2slf