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Pamporovo

Off season Official site

Pamporovo is a ski area in Bulgaria, on slopes between roughly 1,654 and 1,654 m. Its mapped area is about 5.7 km across, with 30 marked runs and 13 lifts (about 24 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 130 cm of snowfall a season, 1,954th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in Bulgaria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (207 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (68 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 37 cm.

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

Temperature
10.4℃
Max wind
9.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
1654–1654m
Across
5.7km

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.

Seasonal snowfall
130 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
68 cm
A typical winter: 131 cm. The best: 207 cm.
World rank
1954
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
4
of 5 in Bulgaria
Elevation rank
2
Highest to lowest, of 5 in Bulgaria. The centre point sits at 1,654 m, 129 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
Chepelare6.2 km133 cm1909
Zdravets40 km130 cm1954

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 37 cm, about the same as the median of 36 cm.

28cm
Dec
36cm
Jan
30cm
Feb
37cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 130 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 68 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 207 cm (3.0 times as much). For 40% of the 5 ski areas in Bulgaria, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

207
68
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
30
Run length
24km
Lifts
13
Vertical
476m
Top 1,931 m · base 1,454 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map4.4 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 55%
East 24%
South 3%
West 17%

79% 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 8
Easy 7
Intermediate 7
Advanced 7
Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift6
  • T-bar2
  • Drag lift2
  • Magic carpet2
  • J-bar1

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.

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

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