Live Ski Data Hub | Snow Depth, Forecasts, Lifts & Prices Methodology

The six data pillars

Upper- vs lower-mountain readings, 48–96 h cache TTLs, and how stale or qualitative values are explicitly expired rather than guessed.

Why 7-day totals are more useful than hourly graphs at 9 km model resolution, and how we altitude-correct per resort.

Four-signal model: season window, operational status, terrain open, and time-of-day hours for indoor centres.

Official resort pricing, EUR normalisation, hard-coded operator rules (Skistar × 4.9, fixed SEK 11:1) and rejection of one-day promo pricing.

675+ resorts across 41 countries, ~60 categorisation tags, coordinate-verified against OpenStreetMap and Google Maps.

Powder alerts at ≥20 cm/24 h or ≥30 cm/7 d with a 5-day cool-down, twice-daily cron jobs and per-region sync schedules.

How upper- and lower-mountain snow depth is collected, normalised and refreshed across 41 countries.

Why a 7-day snow forecast for a ski resort is not the same as a city weather forecast — and what our numbers actually mean.

How we track which resorts and lifts are open, including season opening/closing dates and indoor-centre hours.

Where lift pass prices come from, how we normalise into EUR, and why one-day promo prices are deliberately ignored.

Global ranking of resorts by current upper-mountain snow depth.

7-day forecast totals across European, North American and Japanese resorts.

Country-by-country snow report with both upper- and lower-mountain depth.

Forecast-only view of European resorts, ranked by 7-day expected snowfall.

Season opening and closing dates per resort, auto-rolled only after season end.

Full directory of live data tools across regions, filterable by Alps, Scandinavia, Japan, etc.