Pârtia Oprea - Valea Mare
Pârtia Oprea - Valea Mare is a ski area in Romania, at about 753 m. Its mapped area is about 0.6 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 93 cm of snowfall a season, 2,449th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 23rd in Romania. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (139 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (52 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 27 cm.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poiana Brașov | 42 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| Azuga | 49 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 70% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Romania (69%). In amount, March brings 19 cm, less than the median of 23 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 93 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 52 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 139 cm (2.7 times as much). For 48% of the 27 ski areas in Romania, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: 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 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Rope tow1
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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52