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Lech am Arlberg

AT·Vorarlberg◇Part of Ski Arlberg· 305kmless snow sure
upscaleiconic-viewBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainIntermediate paradise
Weeks 2–5

Typically -11.7°C · 33cm fresh / week · powder day 51% · mixed 39%

Top elev.
2811m
Base elev.
1450m
Pistes
305km
Lifts
88
Piste mix273km mapped
Blue45%
Red39%
Black16%
Lech am Arlberg
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COMPOSITE SCORE
67
Snow83
Typically 113cm
Typical depth113cm
94cm152cm
Travel49
From your origin
Size90
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 2–5

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1524m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -11.7°C, with 33cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 51% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
2.0 days/week
spring-like in 25% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
2.1 m/s
peaks to 3 m/s
Typical Freezing level
324 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
51%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
43%
of years
Bluebird
18%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
39%
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
113cm
Temperature
-11.7°C
Fresh snow
33cm
Snow line
324m
Wind
2.1 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Lech am Arlberg's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 4cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 46m a decade.

117cm
122cm
131cm
120cm
122cm
109cm
103cm
96cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
54–230cm

Across single winters (1963–64 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−21cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025.

Freezing level
+46m

Per decade. 690m in 1950–1959, 1035m now. Still 415m 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
Friedrichshafen (FDH)102 min
Innsbruck (INN)92 min
Munich (MUC)192 min
Zürich (ZRH)169 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.

  • 11305geosphere
  • 173geosphere