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Vail, in Colorado, United States, runs from 2,500 m at the base to 3,527 m at the top. The map shows 241 marked runs and 32 lifts (about 205 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 178 cm of snowfall a season, 1,335th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 115th in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (124 cm), reached 70% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (44 and 41 cm on average).
Below is a link to its official live camera.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
9.6℃
Max wind
20.6km/h
Elevation
2500–3527m
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
178 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
124 cm
A typical winter: 174 cm. The best: 237 cm.
World rank
1335
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
115
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
20
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 3,100 m, 2,572 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Creek | 15 km | 189 cm | 1248 |
| Copper Mountain | 26 km | 157 cm | 1578 |
| Breckenridge | 31 km | 146 cm | 1714 |
| Ski Cooper | 33 km | 146 cm | 1714 |
| Keystone | 39 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 46 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
44cmDec
41cmJan
47cmFeb
46cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 178 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 124 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 237 cm (1.9 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
124
237
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
241
Run length
205km
Lifts
32
Vertical
1,065m
Top 3,517 m · base 2,452 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedFreeride Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map6.3 km
Steepest pitch37°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.2°
Which way the slopes face
North 40%
East 12%
South 20%
West 28%
52% 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 4
Easy 45
Intermediate 81
Advanced 110
Freeride 1
Lift types
- Chairlift20
- Magic carpet6
- Platter3
- Gondola2
- T-bar1
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 39.6403, -106.3742
More places to look
Guides covering United States
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.
- Niseko vs Whistler: Whistler Is the Outlier, Vail Is the Rule Whistler is the world's 29th snowiest ski area. Vail is 1,335th — and 288 Japanese ski areas get more snow than the resort that defines American skiing.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52