Rarău Ski Resort is a ski area in Romania, at about 1,030 m. Its mapped area is about 2.8 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 2.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 95 cm of snowfall a season, 2,424th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 22nd in Romania. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (128 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (62 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (25 and 22 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. 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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 23 cm, about the same as the median of 23 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 95 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 62 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 128 cm (2.1 times as much).
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
91% 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
Lift types
- Gondola1
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