Ski India

India is home to nearly a dozen ski areas, most of them fairly primitive facilities in the foothills of the Himilayas.

By far the best known internationally is Gulmarg which is generally regarded as the highest ‘proper’ ski area in the world with lifts peaking at nearly 4,000m (there are highest ski slopes in China but they have just one run and short drag lift).

Gulmarg began life as a hill station in British Colonial times and in the past few decades has faced the challenges of its proximity to Pakistan and the terrorist activities of Kashmiri separatists which have resulted in occasional kidnaps, cross border shelling and most visible day to day, a heavy Indian army presence.

The centre added a second chairlift for the 11–12 season and has up to 70km of runs and over 1000m of lift served vertical.

Other major resorts include Auli with a 4km long gondola that was at one time Asia’s longest and Narkanda.

There have been several plans to build ‘international standard destination resorts’ in India over the past 10 years too. One high profile project by the grandson of Ford Motor Cars founder Alfred Ford was bogged down in controversy and litigation for many years.

India is also known for its affordable and exciting heliskiing and if you’re down in the hotter parts of the country you can find a couple of indoor snow centres to escape the heat too.
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India: latest snow conditions round-up

Summary of forecast snowfall and ski conditions for resorts in India. Fresh snow is forecast at 10 resorts. Powder is reported at 0 resorts and 0 are reporting good piste conditions.

All resorts

Ski resorts of India, alphabetically

Resort
snow depth
top and bottom

on-piste

off-piste

Last Snow

Next 9 Days
0–3 | 3–6 | 6–9
snow (cm)
Next 5 days weather forecast.
Freezing level (m)
Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue

(2520m — 3049m)

2.0 cm
on 13 Mar
light rain light rain rain showers rain showers part cloud
Mid station 2784 m
4400m 4200m 3950m 3800m 3700m

(2600m — 3950m)

5 cm
on 30 Apr
1.0
clear clear part cloud rain showers part cloud
Mid station 3275 m
4250m 4150m 3950m 3700m 3500m

(4000m — 5500m)

snow report 9 days ago

3.0 cm
10 days ago
5.0
2.0
part cloud clear part cloud light snow clear
Mid station 4750 m
3700m 3550m 3450m 3200m 2800m

(4000m — 6400m)

1.0 cm
on 11 Jul
part cloud clear part cloud cloud clear
Mid station 5200 m
4300m 4000m 3850m 3700m 3450m

(2024m — 2502m)

2.0 cm
on 4 Feb
clear clear clear clear clear
Mid station 2263 m
4500m 4300m 4150m 3950m 3800m

(2000m — 5500m)

4 cm
on 4 May
1.0
clear clear snow showers snow showers clear
Mid station 3750 m
4250m 4000m 3700m 3400m 3250m

(3500m — 7135m)

4 cm
10 days ago
7.0
2.0
part cloud clear snow showers light snow clear
Mid station 5318 m
3500m 3400m 3250m 3000m 2550m

(3770m — 6000m)

3.0 cm
58 days ago
1.0
2.0
clear clear part cloud snow showers clear
Mid station 4885 m
4050m 3900m 3750m 3350m 3200m

(2750m — 3200m)

4 cm
on 30 Apr
clear clear rain showers rain showers clear
Mid station 2975 m
4250m 4000m 3700m 3350m 3250m

(2895m — 5500m)

snow report 16 days ago

1.0 cm
on 12 May
clear clear part cloud cloud clear
Mid station 4198 m
4300m 4000m 3900m 3700m 3450m