Garmisch-Classic Skiarea is a ski area in Germany, on slopes between roughly 1,402 and 1,402 m. Within 1 km of its centre the map shows 38 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 18 km of piste).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 237 cm of snowfall a season, 810th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 15th in Germany. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2018/19 (378 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (150 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 73 cm.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skiweltcup Garmisch-Kandahar Rennen | 2.0 km | 204 cm | 1117 |
| Eckbauer | 4.0 km | 205 cm | 1105 |
| Zugspitze | 7.6 km | 231 cm | 865 |
| Ehrwald Wettersteinbahnen | 12 km | 231 cm | 865 |
| Ehrwalder Almbahn | 12 km | 231 cm | 865 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Germany (47%). In amount, March brings 53 cm, more than the median of 27 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 237 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 150 cm; the biggest was 2018/19 with 378 cm (2.5 times as much). For 35% of the 75 ski areas in Germany, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 1 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
By difficulty
Lift types
- T-bar3
- Chairlift3
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52