Planica
Planica is a ski area in Slovenia, at about 1,020 m. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 181 cm of snowfall a season, 1,309th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in Slovenia. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020/21 (336 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (95 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (49 and 41 cm on average).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macesnovc Rateče | 1.4 km | 181 cm | 1309 |
| Kranjska Gora | 1.5 km | 242 cm | 787 |
| Dreiländereck - Arnoldstein | 5.8 km | 181 cm | 1309 |
| Tarvisio | 13 km | 229 cm | 885 |
| Mojstrana | 17 km | 136 cm | 1860 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings 88% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Slovenia (70%). In amount, March brings 36 cm, more than the median of 23 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 181 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 95 cm; the biggest was 2020/21 with 336 cm (3.5 times as much). For 38% of the 16 ski areas in Slovenia, 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.
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