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Laax

modernBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainIntermediate paradise
Weeks 7–10

Typically -12.6°C · 28cm fresh / week · powder day 43% · mixed 55%

Top elev.
3018m
Base elev.
1100m
Pistes
224km
Lifts
28
Piste mix152km mapped
Blue38%
Red34%
Black8%
Freeride18%
Other2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
67
Snow88
Typically 130cm
Typical depth130cm
107cm164cm
Travel39
From your origin
Size85
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 7–10

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~643m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -12.6°C, with 28cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 43% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
4.2 days/week
spring-like in 63% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
17.8 m/s
peaks to 38 m/s
Typical Freezing level
125 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
43%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
33%
of years
Bluebird
12%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
55%
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
130cm
Temperature
-12.6°C
Fresh snow
28cm
Snow line
126m
Wind
17.8 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Laax's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 3cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 42m a decade.

101cm
105cm
108cm
98cm
99cm
96cm
90cm
80cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
41–186cm

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

Typical base
−21cm

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

Freezing level
+42m

Per decade. -31m in 1950–1959, 297m now. Still 803m below the village.

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
Bern (BRN)200 min
Friedrichshafen (FDH)109 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)186 min
Zürich (ZRH)140 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.

  • TUM2slf
  • MUT2slf