Ski Germany
Welcome to the Ski Germany page, providing a regular round-up of the skiing conditions and current snow reports for the main ski resorts in the country. Over recent years some of the best piste and off-piste powder conditions in Germany have been reported at Oberstdorf-Fellhorn and Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Zugspitze although of course during any given week the best slope conditions may be found at any of the country’s resorts. Check out the reports below if you are planning a trip at short notice.
Germany is one of the world’s leading ski nations with more than 500 ski areas spread right across the country, and an even larger number of individual ski lift operating companies. This places it up with Austria, Japan and the USA as the only countries with this many separate ski centres.
Of course most of these ski centres are small village drag lifts but the range of German ski resorts goes right up to international destination resorts like Oberstdorf and Garmisch Partenkirchen (Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Zugspitze), the latter a former winter Olympic ski resort and more recently host to the 2011 Alpine Skiing World Championships.
Its ski area includes the Zugspitz, Germany’s highest peak with skiing and boarding up to 2,830m. The glacier on the top has been a summer skiing and boarding venue in the past but stopped operating outside the regular winter season a few years ago. However it remains snowsure and in January 2012 reported the biggest snowfall of any resort in the world with 2.4m (eight feet) of snow falling in a week there.
With Garmisch itself down at 720m there appears to be a fairly impressive 2100m vertical between the top of the lifts and the resort but in fact the two are separated by some kilometres of funicular train track and a couple of unskiable precipices on the way back down. An area lift pass includes the local ski area and several others over the border in Austria.
However Gamisch is one of about a dozen German ski areas that can offer a lift served vertical of more than 1,000m alongside famous names like Reit im Winkl, Grainau, Mittenwald/Dammkar and Berchtesgaden.
Many of Germany’s biggest and best known ski areas are in the Bavarian Alps along the country’s southern border, but smaller hills are located all over the country including in the former east Germany and with many in the Black Forest.
In the north west of the country the Winterberg ski region up close to the border with the Netherlands brings together more than a dozen separate ski areas which are very popular at weekends with up to 50,000 visiting Dutch skiers and boarders, as well as Germans from Cologne 140km away, who throng the slopes which are floodlit to 10pm, despite sometimes marginal snow cover, and the bars and night clubs later on.
Germany has one of the largest populations of skiers in the world with at least 12 million German skiers, many of them filling resorts in Austria and Switzerland as well as their domestic ski areas. Cross country skiing, biathlon and ski jumping are also very popular in Germany.
The country is also a claimant to being the probable location of the world’s first dedicated ski lift, created in the Black Forest in the 1890s and using green energy – a watermill – to pull a sledge up a slope that skiing pioneers could ride up on.
In the modern era Germany is famous for its indoor snow centres, of which there are now six, including some of the world’s largest. One is home to the world’s biggest conveyor type lift at over 400m long, to get skiers and boarders back up the hill indoors. read more...
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Germany: latest snow conditions round-up
GERMANY The sky above the German resorts was a mixture of sun and cloud on Thursday 9th February, providing good visibility to enjoy the great riding that is available.All of our featured German resorts, except Oberstdorf (55/330cm) have reported new snow this week. A dusting fell at the resorts on Tuesday 7th February, freshening up the pistes.As you may expect, the ski area at Garmisch (60/410cm) reports the deepest snow base with a depth of over 4 metres up on the glacier skiing area.Fresh snow is forecast across the country over the next week or so, with Reit im Winkl (96/280cm) and Spitzingsee (110/190cm) expecting at least 40cm of snow to fall by Friday 17th February.
Ski resorts of Germany, alphabetically
| Resort | Webcam (click to zoom) |
Top and bottom snow depth |
On-piste | Off-piste | Forecast snow in next 3 days (click for forecast) |
Weather forecast for 3 days ahead Weather report |
Last snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albstadt |
15 cm 10 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 31 Jan | ||
| Almberg/Skizentrum Mitterdorf |
170 cm 170 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Alpsee Bergwelt |
|
90 cm 40 cm |
Powder | Powder | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb |
| Altastenberg |
|
45 cm 25 cm |
Artificial | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 3 Feb | |
| Altenau |
|
20 cm 15 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb |
| Altenau/Torfhaus |
60 cm 40 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb | |
| Altenberg |
60 cm 60 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb | |
| Arber |
140 cm 120 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Arnsberg |
|
30 cm 15 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 24 Jan | |
| Arrach/Eck | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Arrach/Ski Eck/Riedelstein |
85 cm 95 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 28 Jan | ||
| Aschau im Chiemgau |
160 cm 15 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Bad Kohlgrub |
|
40 cm 20 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Bad Marienberg/Schorrberg |
30 cm 30 cm |
Artificial | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 31 Jan | ||
| Bad Reichenhall/Predigtstuhl | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Bad Sachsa/Ravensberg |
30 cm 3 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Bad Tölz/Blomberg |
|
50 cm 25 cm |
Packed | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Bad Wiessee |
115 cm 55 cm |
Packed | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Baernau-Altglashuette/Silberhuette |
35 cm 10 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb | |
| Baiersbronn |
40 cm 5 cm |
Artificial | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 31 Jan | ||
| Balderschwang |
|
260 cm 170 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Bayrischzell-Brannenburg/Wendelstein |
182 cm 0 cm |
Powder | Powder | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Bayrischzell/Sudelfeld |
175 cm 90 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Belchenland |
50 cm 10 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 23 Jan | ||
| Benneckenstein |
25 cm 20 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
on 3 Feb | ||
| Berchtesgaden |
|
110 cm 90 cm |
Excellent | Varied | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow Predominantly sunny with cloudy spells |
7 cm on 7 Feb |
| Bergen-Chiemgau/Inntal/Hochfelln |
120 cm 10 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 28 Jan | ||
| Bernau/Hofeck/Köpfle |
|
560 cm 30 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 25 Jan | |
| Bestwig/Wasserfall/Fort Fun | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Bischofsheim an der Rhon |
20 cm 10 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 24 Jan | ||
| Bischofsreut |
130 cm 80 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Bischofswiesen/Goetschen |
|
120 cm 100 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb |
| Bläsiberg Skilifte Wiesensteig |
10 cm 10 cm |
Powder | Powder | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb | |
| Bödefeld-Hunau | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Bodenmais/Silberberg |
170 cm 30 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Bolsterlang |
|
260 cm 100 cm |
Powder | Powder | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb |
| Bottrop/Alpincenter |
50 cm 50 cm |
Artificial | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Braunlage Wurmberg |
60 cm 25 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Braunlage/Hohegeiß |
|
36 cm 36 cm |
Hard | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb | |
| Brilon/Am Poppenberg | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Brotterode |
37 cm 24 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 8 Feb | |
| Bruchhausen/Sternrodt |
|
25 cm 20 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 3 Feb | |
| Buching |
|
20 cm 10 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Carlsfeld/Hirschkopf |
70 cm 60 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Buntenbock |
22 cm 18 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Dreisessel | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Eibenstock |
50 cm 20 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 25 Jan | ||
| Erbendorf | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Erlbach/Kegelberg |
50 cm 30 cm |
Artificial | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | ||
| Eschach/Schwaerzenlifts |
130 cm 70 cm |
Powder | Powder | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 28 Jan | |
| Eschenlohe | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Falkenstein |
12 cm 12 cm |
1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 6 Feb | |||
| Feldberg |
|
150 cm 90 cm |
Excellent | Varied | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow Predominantly sunny with cloudy spells |
2 cm on 7 Feb |
| Feuerberg | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Fichtelberg | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Fischen |
|
70 cm 40 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
on 7 Feb | |
| Freyung/Geyersberg |
80 cm 45 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Gaissach/Reiserhang |
60 cm 50 cm |
Powder | Powder | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Garmisch-Classic |
|
280 cm 60 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Zugspitze |
|
410 cm 60 cm |
Excellent | Varied | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow Partly cloudy, some sunny spells |
1 cm on 7 Feb |
| Gehlberg/Schmücke |
30 cm 20 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
on 28 Jan | ||
| Geising |
25 cm 10 cm |
Packed | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 26 Jan | ||
| Geisskopf |
110 cm 80 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | ||
| Gmund |
70 cm 40 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Grafenau |
75 cm 20 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | |
| Grainau | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Grainet/Haidel |
100 cm 60 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 21 Jan | ||
| Grasgehren/Bolgengrat |
|
330 cm 60 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb |
| Hahnenklee |
22 cm 20 cm |
Hard | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 6 Feb | ||
| Haidmühle |
|
150 cm 90 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 22 Jan | |
| Halblech | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Haldenköpfle |
60 cm 50 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 2 Feb | ||
| Hauzenberg/Geiersberg |
80 cm 70 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Heigenbrücken | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Hellenthal/Skiarena Weisser Stein |
|
5 cm 1 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 8 Feb |
| Herchenhainer Höhe | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
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| Herzogstand-Urfeld |
195 cm 40 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Hilchenbach-Lützel |
0 cm 8 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Hinterschmiding/Herzogsreut |
30 cm 60 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Hinterzarten/Skizentrum Thoma |
25 cm 15 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 30 Jan | ||
| Hohenbogen | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Hoherodskopf/Breungeshain/Rennwiese | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
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| Homberg-/Snow World Züschen |
|
30 cm 20 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 3 Feb | |
| Immenstadt |
|
100 cm 15 cm |
Packed | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Inzell-Kessel Lifte |
80 cm 50 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Isny-Maierhöfen-Riedholz/Iberg |
15 cm 15 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 2 Feb | |
| Isny-Maierhöfen/Fluckenlifts |
15 cm 15 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 2 Feb | |
| Isny/Felderhalde |
15 cm 15 cm |
Powder | Powder | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 2 Feb | |
| Jakobsthal/Englaenderlifts | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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| Jenner |
160 cm 50 cm |
old | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Jungholz |
110 cm 80 cm |
Powder | Powder | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Klingenthal/Muehlleiten |
70 cm 40 cm |
Powder | Powder | 1 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 9 Feb | |
| Kniebis |
40 cm 5 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 8 Feb | |
| Kreuth - Hirschberg |
80 cm 50 cm |
Packed | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 7 Feb | ||
| Kreuth/Hirschberg |
150 cm 70 cm |
Powder | Powder | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 10 Feb | |
| Lauscha-Ernstthal |
55 cm 42 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
on 4 Feb | ||
| Lenggries |
|
190 cm 80 cm |
Excellent | Varied | 2 cm |
A dusting of new snow Partly cloudy, some sunny spells |
4 cm on 7 Feb |
| Ludwigsstadt/Skizentrum |
|
20 cm 10 cm |
Packed | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
on 31 Jan | |
| Masserberg/Ersteberg |
55 cm 30 cm |
Fresh | Fresh | 0 cm |
Mostly dry |
on 9 Feb | |
| Mauern/Hanslmühle | 0 cm |
A dusting of new snow |
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