🇦🇹 Austria

Sölden

13 / 100 Powder Score

Sölden is a ski area in Austria, on slopes between roughly 2,791 and 2,791 m. Its mapped area is about 10 km across, with 162 marked runs and 39 lifts (about 103 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 242 cm of snowfall a season, 787th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 101st in Austria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (355 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (155 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (69 and 67 cm on average).

Below is a link to its official live camera.

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

1.4cm

Next 72h

2.4cm

Temperature

2.3℃

Max wind

16.6km/h

Elevation (est.)

2791–2791m

Across

10km

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 3.3/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 8/10

Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Snow	Temp	Wind
❄️ 8 Oct	1.4	-1.5 / 5.8	16.6
❄️ 9 Oct	0	-2.5 / 4	5.9
❄️ 10 Oct	0.8	-1 / 2.5	10.5
🌫️ 11 Oct	1	-2.3 / 3.3	9.7
❄️ 12 Oct	0	-4.1 / -0.3	12.8
🌤️ 13 Oct	0	-2.7 / 2.3	15
🌧️ 14 Oct	0	1.3 / 3.4	14.6

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

162

Run length

103km

Lifts

Vertical

1,899m

Top 3,245 m · base 1,346 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map4.8 km

Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs11.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 25%

East 59%

South 13%

West 2%

84% 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 1

Easy 93

Intermediate 43

Advanced 23

Other 2

Lift types

Chairlift13
Gondola9
T-bar6
Magic carpet6
Platter2
Funicular2
Rope tow1

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.

Live Cameras

On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: Sölden

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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

242 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

155 cm

A typical winter: 222 cm. The best: 355 cm.

World rank

787

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

101

of 243 in Austria

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 243 in Austria. The centre point sits at 2,791 m, 1,450 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Pitztaler Gletscher	6.7 km	240 cm	800
Rifflsee	8.6 km	263 cm	657
Obergurgl-Hochgurgl	9.9 km	229 cm	885
Vent	10 km	221 cm	945
Stubaier Gletscher	13 km	265 cm	643

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 82% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Austria (75%). In amount, March brings 55 cm, about the same as the median of 49 cm.

69cm

Dec

67cm

Jan

51cm

Feb

55cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 242 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 155 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 355 cm (2.3 times as much). For 28% of the 243 ski areas in Austria, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

355

155

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.