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Leukerbad

CH·Valaisless snow sure
traditionalquietpretty-villageBackcountry / off-piste
Weeks 50–1

Typically -6.8°C · 39cm fresh / week · powder day 55% · mixed 44%

Top elev.
2700m
Base elev.
1411m
Pistes
50km
Lifts
12
Piste mix24km mapped
Blue9%
Red56%
Black32%
Other3%
COMPOSITE SCORE
56
Snow80
Typically 120cm
Typical depth120cm
89cm148cm
Travel15
From your origin
Size61
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 1–53

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2393m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -6.8°C, with 39cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 55% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
0.8 days/week
spring-like in 8% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
17.5 m/s
peaks to 35 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1009 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
55%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.7 days
per week
Storm
46%
of years
Bluebird
11%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
44%
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+
94%
Depth
124cm
Temperature
-6.8°C
Fresh snow
39cm
Snow line
1009m
Wind
17.5 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Leukerbad's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 5cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 43m a decade.

189cm
193cm
198cm
193cm
190cm
167cm
177cm
163cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
94–321cm

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

Typical base
−25cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Valais region moved −20cm.

Freezing level
+43m

Per decade. 1358m in 1950–1959, 1665m 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

AirportDriveTrain
Bern (BRN)153 min
Geneva (GVA)156 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)189 min
Zürich (ZRH)249 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.

  • TRU2slf
  • ADE2slf