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St. Moritz

CH·Graubünden◇Part of Engadin St. Moritz· 350km
upscaleiconic-viewBackcountry / off-piste
Linked terrain

Shuttle bus or train reaches the other resorts here, not lifts. Expect to stay in this sector most days.

Weeks 6–9

Typically -9.1°C · 19cm fresh / week · powder day 30% · mixed 64%

Top elev.
3303m
Base elev.
1822m
Pistes
350km
Lifts
56
Piste mix68km mapped
Blue36%
Red46%
Black14%
Double-black1%
Other3%
St. Moritz
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COMPOSITE SCORE
59
Snow92
Typically 149cm
Typical depth149cm
106cm184cm
Travel0
From your origin
Size73
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 6–9

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2597m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -9.1°C, with 19cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 30% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
0.8 days/week
spring-like in 9% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
13.4 m/s
peaks to 27 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1160 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
30%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
22%
of years
Bluebird
14%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
64%
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
149cm
Temperature
-9.1°C
Fresh snow
19cm
Snow line
1161m
Wind
13.4 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

St. Moritz's typical base has sat near 100cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 122cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 45m a decade.

107cm
107cm
106cm
91cm
95cm
102cm
104cm
84cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
54–177cm

Across single winters (2001–02 to 2000–01).

Typical base
−23cm

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

Freezing level
+45m

Per decade. 1175m in 1950–1959, 1480m now. Still 342m 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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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.

  • BEV2slf
  • BER3slf