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Espot Esquí

Off season

Espot Esquí is a ski area in Spain, at about 1,917 m. Its mapped area is about 4.1 km across, with 24 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 20 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 214 cm of snowfall a season, 1,008th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 14th in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (358 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (102 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 60 cm.

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature
3.9℃
Max wind
25km/h
Elevation
1,917m
Across
4.1km

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
214 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
102 cm
A typical winter: 208 cm. The best: 358 cm.
World rank
1008
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
14
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
12
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 1,917 m, 135 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Port Ainé18 km115 cm2167
Estació d'esquí Tavascan18 km271 cm616
Estació d'esquí Boí-Taüll19 km221 cm945
Guzet31 km281 cm566
Pal-Arinsal32 km170 cm1416

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 60 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.

47cm
Dec
55cm
Jan
52cm
Feb
60cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 214 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 102 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 358 cm (3.5 times as much). For 29% of the 34 ski areas in Spain, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

358
102
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
24
Run length
20km
Lifts
6
Vertical
780m
Top 2,290 m · base 1,511 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.1 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 67%
East 28%
South 2%
West 3%

95% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 2
Easy 11
Intermediate 7
Advanced 4

Lift types

  • Chairlift3
  • Magic carpet2
  • Platter1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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