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Resort dossier
Grächen
CH·Valais
Weeks 1–4
Typically -12.3°C · 23cm fresh / week · powder day 43% · mixed 45%
Top elev.
2868m
Base elev.
1619m
Pistes
40km
Lifts
12
Piste mix16km mapped
Blue28%
Red70%
Other2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
57
Snow90
Typically 144cm
Typical depth144cm
110cm175cm
Travel2
From your origin
Size58
Linked-area piste-km
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect
What to expect in weeks 1–4
Based on 40 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2018m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically mixed, around -12.3°C, with 23cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 43% of the time. Other weeks run stormy or cold and clear.
Icy mornings
0.1 days/week
spring-like in 1% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
20.3 m/s
peaks to 34 m/s
Typical Freezing level
357 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
43%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
33%
of years
Bluebird
22%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
45%
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
144cm
Temperature
-12.3°C
Fresh snow
23cm
Snow line
357m
Wind
20.3 m/s
Transfers
Transfers
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern (BRN) | 177 min | |
| Geneva (GVA) | 180 min | |
| Milan Malpensa (MXP) | 182 min | |
| Turin (TRN) | 226 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.
- SAA2slf
- STN2slf