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...

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					0 cm	Light rain (total 6.0mm), mostly falling on Fri morning
Almberg/Skizentrum Mitterdorf					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Alpsee Bergwelt					4 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Altastenberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Altenau					0 cm	Mostly dry
Altenau/Torfhaus					0 cm	Mostly dry
Altenberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Arber					1 cm	A dusting of new snow
Arnsberg					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Fri morning
Arrach/Eck					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Wed afternoon
Arrach/Ski Eck/Riedelstein					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Aschau im Chiemgau					4 cm	Drizzle at first, then turning colder with dusting of snow on Wed afternoon
Bad Kohlgrub					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Bad Marienberg/Schorrberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Bad Reichenhall/Predigtstuhl					4 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm) at first, then becoming colder with a dusting of snow on Wed afternoon
Bad Sachsa/Ravensberg					0 cm	Mostly dry
Bad Tölz/Blomberg					2 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm) at first, then becoming colder with a dusting of snow on Wed afternoon
Bad Wiessee					2 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm) at first, then becoming colder with a dusting of snow on Wed afternoon
Baernau-Altglashuette/Silberhuette					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Wed afternoon
Baiersbronn					0 cm	Light rain (total 9.0mm), mostly falling on Fri morning
Balderschwang					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Bayrischzell-Brannenburg/Wendelstein					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Bayrischzell/Sudelfeld					6 cm	A dusting of new snow
Belchenland					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 11.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Benneckenstein					0 cm	Mostly dry
Berchtesgaden					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Bergen-Chiemgau/Inntal/Hochfelln					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Bernau/Hofeck/Köpfle					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 11.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Bestwig/Wasserfall/Fort Fun					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Bischofsheim an der Rhon					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Fri morning
Bischofsreut					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Bischofswiesen/Goetschen					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Bläsiberg Skilifte Wiesensteig					0 cm	Light rain (total 5.0mm), mostly falling on Fri morning
Bödefeld-Hunau					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Bodenmais/Silberberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Bolsterlang					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Bottrop/Alpincenter		50 cm 50 cm	Artificial		0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Braunlage Wurmberg					0 cm	Mostly dry
Braunlage/Hohegeiß					0 cm	Mostly dry
Brilon/Am Poppenberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Brotterode					0 cm	Mostly dry	on 19 Feb
Bruchhausen/Sternrodt					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Buching					2 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm) at first, then becoming colder with a dusting of snow on Wed afternoon
Carlsfeld/Hirschkopf					0 cm	Mostly dry
Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Buntenbock					0 cm	Mostly dry
Dreisessel					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Eibenstock					0 cm	Mostly dry
Erbendorf					0 cm	Mostly dry
Erlbach/Kegelberg					0 cm	Mostly dry
Eschach/Schwaerzenlifts					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Eschenlohe					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Falkenstein					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Wed afternoon
Feldberg					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 10.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Feuerberg					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 11.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Fichtelberg					0 cm	Mostly dry
Fischen					1 cm	Light rain (total 7.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Freyung/Geyersberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Gaissach/Reiserhang					1 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm) at first, then becoming colder with a dusting of snow on Wed night
Garmisch-Classic					4 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Zugspitze		470 cm 0 cm	Good	Varied	7 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon Light clouds dotting the sky	20 cm on 24 Apr
Gehlberg/Schmücke					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Fri afternoon
Geising					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Geisskopf					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Gmund					1 cm	A dusting of snow turning to light rain (total 2.0mm) on Fri morning
Grafenau					1 cm	Light rain (total 5.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Grainau					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Grainet/Haidel					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Grasgehren/Bolgengrat					7 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Hahnenklee					0 cm	Mostly dry
Haidmühle					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Halblech					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Haldenköpfle					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 12.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Hauzenberg/Geiersberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Heigenbrücken					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Fri morning
Hellenthal/Skiarena Weisser Stein					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Wed afternoon
Herchenhainer Höhe					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Herzogstand-Urfeld					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Hilchenbach-Lützel					0 cm	Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Hinterschmiding/Herzogsreut					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Hinterzarten/Skizentrum Thoma					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 10.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Hohenbogen					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Wed afternoon
Hoherodskopf/Breungeshain/Rennwiese					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Homberg-/Snow World Züschen					0 cm	Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Immenstadt					4 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Inzell-Kessel Lifte					7 cm	A light covering of new snow on Wed afternoon turning to drizzle on Fri afternoon
Isny-Maierhöfen-Riedholz/Iberg					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Isny-Maierhöfen/Fluckenlifts					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Isny/Felderhalde					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
Jakobsthal/Englaenderlifts					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Fri morning
Jenner					6 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Jungholz					4 cm	A dusting of snow on Wed afternoon. Freezing level rising with drizzle on Fri afternoon
Klingenthal/Muehlleiten					0 cm	Mostly dry
Kniebis					0 cm	Moderate rain (total 10.0mm), heaviest on Fri morning
Kreuth - Hirschberg					2 cm	A dusting of new snow
Kreuth/Hirschberg					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Lauscha-Ernstthal					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Fri afternoon
Lenggries					4 cm	A dusting of new snow
Ludwigsstadt/Skizentrum					0 cm	Mostly dry
Masserberg/Ersteberg					0 cm	Some drizzle, heaviest during Fri afternoon
Mauern/Hanslmühle					0 cm	Light rain (total 4.0mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon