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Resort dossier
Ellmau
Weeks 6–9
Typically -5.1°C · 25cm fresh / week · powder day 45% · mixed 58%
Top elev.
1828m
Base elev.
820m
Pistes
270km
Lifts
90
Piste mix233km mapped
Blue47%
Red45%
Black4%
Freeride5%
COMPOSITE SCORE
60
Snow62
Typically 92cm
Typical depth92cm
61cm125cm
Travel58
From your origin
Size88
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 ~887m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically mixed, around -5.1°C, with 25cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 45% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.
Icy mornings
4.8 days/week
spring-like in 71% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
2.1 m/s
peaks to 5 m/s
Typical Freezing level
540 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
45%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.9 days
per week
Storm
33%
of years
Bluebird
9%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
58%
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+
79%
Depth
92cm
Temperature
-5.1°C
Fresh snow
25cm
Snow line
541m
Wind
2.1 m/s
Transfers
Transfers
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrichshafen (FDH) | 205 min | |
| Innsbruck (INN) | 75 min | |
| Munich (MUC) | 100 min | |
| Salzburg (SZG) | 79 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.
- 214geosphere
- 12216geosphere