Watles - Vatles
Watles - Vatles is a ski area in Italy, at about 2,214 m. Its mapped area is about 2.8 km across, with 18 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 9.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 168 cm of snowfall a season, 1,438th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 107th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (270 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (101 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (48 and 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schöneben - Belpiano | 9.2 km | 178 cm | 1335 |
| Minschuns | 15 km | 181 cm | 1309 |
| Trafoi | 16 km | 160 cm | 1541 |
| Nauders am Reschenpass | 18 km | 205 cm | 1105 |
| Scuol Motta Naluns | 20 km | 196 cm | 1184 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 91% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Italy (116%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 40 cm, less than the median of 48 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 168 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 101 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 270 cm (2.7 times as much). For 31% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, 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.
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
Only 42% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift2
- Drag lift1
- Magic carpet1
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.
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.
More places to look
Guides covering Italy
- How Much Does Snowfall Change From One Winter to the Next? Country by Country Over twelve winters, the typical Japanese ski area's best winter was 2.3 times its worst. In Italy and Chile it was 4.6 times, in New Zealand 4.2. Canada, Finland and Sweden come out steadier than Japan.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52