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Estació d'esquí de la Molina

Off season

Estació d'esquí de la Molina is a ski area in Spain, at about 2,001 m. Its mapped area is about 4.6 km across, with 64 marked runs and 17 lifts (about 49 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 82 cm of snowfall a season, 2,562nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 32nd in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (181 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (34 cm). March still brings 23 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

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

Temperature
2.7℃
Max wind
28km/h
Elevation
2,001m
Across
4.6km

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
82 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
34 cm
A typical winter: 68 cm. The best: 181 cm.
World rank
2562
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
32
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
6
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 2,001 m, 219 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
Estació d'esquí de Masella3.5 km109 cm2250
Cambre d'Aze22 km173 cm1389
Font-Romeu Pyrénées 200024 km208 cm1070
La Quillane28 km176 cm1356
Porte Puymorens28 km247 cm757

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 82% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Spain (102%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 23 cm, less than the median of 52 cm.

15cm
Dec
28cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
23cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 82 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 34 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 181 cm (5.3 times as much).

34
181
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
64
Run length
49km
Lifts
17
Vertical
866m
Top 2,518 m · base 1,653 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 map2.9 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 47%
East 40%
South 3%
West 10%

87% 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 15
Easy 25
Intermediate 19
Advanced 5

Lift types

  • Chairlift8
  • Magic carpet4
  • Drag lift3
  • Gondola2

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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