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Valmalenco snow history & reliability

Lombardia, Italy, 1600m

Selected season2025-2026
Archive2014-2026
Seasons12
Resort altitude1600 m

Season archive

Choose a winter and compare observed snow against the long-run November-April climatology.

Observed snow depth is shown for lower and upper slopes, with temperature as context. The long-run reference comes from the historical weekly climate model and is deliberately kept separate from individual reporting seasons.

Use observed seasons to understand what happened; use the climatology to understand what is normally reliable. Neither is a weather forecast.

Long-run snow reliability

Choose the part of winter that matters for your trip. Reliability is recalculated over that season span.

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Snow reliability – Analysing
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Best month–
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Typical valley snow–
Daytime high–
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Season position

Analysing

How the selected winter compares with the historical baseline.

The comparison uses only matching winter weeks, so an incomplete season is not treated as a full winter.

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Peak upper–
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Coverage–
Confidence–
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Snowpack character

Selected season

Altitude dependence, retention and temperature context.

Upper and lower-slope depth are interpreted together; the gap between them indicates how strongly snow cover depends on elevation.

Upper mean–
Lower mean–
Altitude gap–
Spring retention–
Temp vs typical–
Peak timing–
Snowpack structure will appear when enough comparable weeks are available.

Archive confidence

Archive

Coverage and stability of the historical comparison.

This is an observational snow-depth archive, not a snowfall climatology. Confidence reflects reporting coverage and the number of comparable seasons.

Historical depth–
Comparable weeks–
Recent variability–
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Selected ski season

2025-2026

Weekly snow depth and temperature through the selected winter.

Compare lower and upper-slope snowpack development through the active part of the season.

Previous ski season

2024-2025

The preceding winter as a direct reference season.

Use this card to see whether the selected season accumulated and retained snow earlier or later than the winter before it.

Long-run snow climatology

Typical season

Typical weekly mountain/valley depth and temperature from the long-run climate series.

This chart uses the indexed historical climatology behind Snow reliability. It is stable planning context, not an average of the currently selected reporting seasons and not a forecast.

Typical winter profile

Baseline

What the historical profile says about snow reliability.

The archive is interpreted by timing, depth, lower-versus-upper spread and late-winter retention.

Typical peak–
Peak week–
Upper mean–
Lower mean–
Late retention–
Altitude spread–
Building the long-run snow profile…

Snow depth in recent years

5 seasons

Upper-slope snow depth across the five most recent available winters.

The same week positions are aligned across winters, making year-to-year variability visible without duplicating week labels.

Recent variability

5-season context

How much recent winters differ from each other.

Season means are calculated from comparable upper-slope weeks so missing observations do not automatically make a winter look weak.

Strongest–
Weakest–
Spread–
Season range–
Comparing recent winters…
Since the last update

The current mountain setup has improved.

Opportunity improved. Caution eased.

Opportunity improvedCaution easedWeather window changed
Direction: improving
Worth watching

The resort is becoming more interesting now.

P209 detected a material improving shift in the accepted current read.

New · 91% evidence · ranking influence off
Resort read

Technical-terrain specialist

Valmalenco is best understood as a technical-terrain specialist: black pistes and steeper mapped terrain form an unusually strong part of the area profile.

Best fit

Strong skiers looking for a materially steeper and more technical terrain mix.

Trade-off

The defining strength is technical terrain; it is not automatically the strongest progression or easy-cruising choice.

Since the last update

Opportunity improved. Caution eased.

Compare also: Chiesa Valmalenco — Similar altitude, terrain mix, scale and reliability. · Galtur — Same dominant resort personality with overlapping secondary traits and comparable mountain structure. · Bivio — Structurally related mountain with materially different current conditions.

Mountain conditions

What to know before you go

Technical-terrain specialist. Strong weather support with low current risk; 10°C upper mountain, 5 km/h wind, 6 healthy webcams.

Current conditions
Current setup96/100
Weather100/100
Risk0/100
What matters
  • Supportive current weather
  • Lower current weather risk
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