🇺🇦 Ukraine

Гірськолижний комплекс "Плай"

Off season Official site

Гірськолижний комплекс "Плай" is a ski area in Ukraine, at about 824 m. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across, with 16 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 5.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 129 cm of snowfall a season, 1,976th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 4th in Ukraine. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (210 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (46 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (41 and 38 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.

Temperature
12.2℃
Max wind
25.2km/h
Elevation
824m
Across
1.7km

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.

Seasonal snowfall
129 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
46 cm
A typical winter: 128 cm. The best: 210 cm.
World rank
1976
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
4
of 9 in Ukraine
Elevation rank
4
Highest to lowest, of 9 in Ukraine. The centre point sits at 824 m, 437 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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 53% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Ukraine (40%). In amount, March brings 20 cm, more than the median of 12 cm.

41cm
Dec
38cm
Jan
30cm
Feb
20cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 129 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 46 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 210 cm (4.6 times as much). For 89% of the 9 ski areas in Ukraine, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

210
46
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
16
Run length
5.6km
Lifts
3
Vertical
264m
Top 1,048 m · base 784 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14°

Which way the slopes face

North 16%
East 82%
South 2%
West 0%

98% 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

Easy 5
Intermediate 7
Advanced 3
Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift2
  • Platter1

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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