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Resort dossier

Ellmau

AT·Tirol◇Part of SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental· 270kmless snow sure
family-friendlypretty-villagetraditional
Weeks 8–11

Typically -3.1°C · 23cm fresh / week · powder day 37% · mixed 62%

Top elev.
1828m
Base elev.
820m
Pistes
270km
Lifts
90
Piste mix233km mapped
Blue47%
Red45%
Black4%
Freeride5%
Ellmau
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COMPOSITE SCORE
56
Snow51
Typically 89cm
Typical depth89cm
58cm130cm
Travel58
From your origin
Size88
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 8–11

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~887m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -3.1°C, with 23cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 37% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
5.4 days/week
spring-like in 86% of years
Snow texture
Heavy / wet
spring snow, sticky and slow
Typical wind
2.1 m/s
peaks to 4 m/s
Typical Freezing level
850 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
37%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
2.4 days
per week
Storm
28%
of years
Bluebird
8%
of years
Thaw
3%
of years
Mixed
62%
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+
76%
Depth
89cm
Temperature
-3.1°C
Fresh snow
23cm
Snow line
851m
Wind
2.1 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Ellmau's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 4cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 51m a decade.

72cm
77cm
82cm
74cm
70cm
63cm
60cm
43cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
13–132cm

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

Typical base
−29cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Tirol region moved −21cm.

Freezing level
+51m

Per decade. 490m in 1950–1959, 882m 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

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Friedrichshafen (FDH)205 min
Innsbruck (INN)75 min
Munich (MUC)100 min
Salzburg (SZG)79 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.

  • 214geosphere
  • 12216geosphere