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Zdravets

Off season

Zdravets is a ski area in Bulgaria, at about 1,253 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 1 marked run (about 1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 130 cm of snowfall a season, 1,954th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 3rd in Bulgaria. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (260 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (64 cm). March still brings 33 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature
13.1℃
Max wind
9.7km/h
Elevation
1,253m
Across
1.1km

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.

Seasonal snowfall
130 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
64 cm
A typical winter: 126 cm. The best: 260 cm.
World rank
1954
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
3
of 5 in Bulgaria
Elevation rank
5
Highest to lowest, of 5 in Bulgaria. The centre point sits at 1,253 m, 272 m below 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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Chepelare34 km133 cm1909
Pamporovo40 km130 cm1954

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 33 cm, about the same as the median of 36 cm.

31cm
Dec
33cm
Jan
33cm
Feb
33cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 130 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 64 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 260 cm (4.1 times as much). For 40% of the 5 ski areas in Bulgaria, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

64
260
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
1
Run length
1km
Vertical
186m
Top 1,338 m · base 1,153 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch18°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 16%
East 84%
South 0%
West 0%

100% 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 1

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.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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