Ski Romania

Romania has more ski areas than most non-Romanians realise, there are approximately 40 Romania ski resorts and as is the case in most Eastern European nations these offer a mix of simple small hills with one or two ancient lifts and more modern, cutting edge developments.

The only really internationally famous resort in the country for the past few decades giving most people the chance to ski Romania was (and still is) Poiana Brasov, which as well as having the distinction of offering the very lowest prices of all 100+ resorts in the 20+ countries in the brochures of the big western European tour operators, had the additional tourist attractions of being close to the castle most associated with the Count Dracula story in Transylvania and the Carpathian mountains.

In the past five years in particular Romania has clearly eyed the success of new resort developments in nearby Bulgaria and sought to emulate this with its own new developments (causing some stress with environmental protection groups like the WWF in the region).

The new ‘Star Trek Voineasa’ resort for example (there doesn’t appear to be any direct connection to the famous sci fi franchise) is one of the biggest new resort in the region with a Leitner built gondola, quad chairlift and all the associated resort equipment.

It has been built with funding from the Romanian Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism as part of their 80 Million euro “Ski the Carpathians” programme, backed by EC funding.
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Romania: latest snow conditions round-up


BULGARIA / ROMANIA REPORT It's been mostly sunny with just some light snow showers on high slopes in Bulgaria and Romania. Temperatures swing between -10C overnight at the top of the mountain to +10C in the resort in the afternoon, so the snow cover is upper mountain and conditions freeze-thaw. Most areas in the region still have 60-70% of their slopes open, although Vitosha (50/70cm / 20/28") is down to 25%.

Bansko (5/125cm / 2/50") has the deepest base up high and most terrain open in the region, but its long home run is getting very thin now at the base.

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

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Recent Eyeball Snow Reports for Romania

All resorts

Ski resorts of Romania, 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)
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

(850m — 1140m)

5 cm
31 days ago
rain showers rain showers light rain light rain light rain
Mid station 995 m
1500m 1650m 1700m 2100m 1750m

(738m — 1539m)

1.0 cm
30 days ago
4.0
light rain rain showers rain showers light rain heavy rain
Mid station 1138 m
1300m 1150m 1700m 2150m 1500m

(1253m — 1500m)

snow report yesterday

2.0 cm
yesterday
3.0
light snow mod rain light rain light rain light rain
Mid station 1376 m
1350m 1550m 1700m 2100m 1650m

(1233m — 2033m)

snow report 15 days ago

1.0 cm
15 days ago
6.0
8.0
1.0
light snow light snow rain showers rain showers light snow
Mid station 1633 m
1450m 1300m 1550m 2000m 1850m

(1200m — 1500m)

snow report yesterday

9 cm
yesterday
3.0
light snow light rain light rain mod rain rain showers
Mid station 1350 m
1100m 1300m 1550m 1800m 1400m

(936m — 1072m)

snow report yesterday

6 cm
yesterday
light rain light rain rain showers light rain light rain
Mid station 1004 m
1000m 1350m 1500m 2000m 1700m

(1477m — 1677m)

snow report yesterday

2.0 cm
yesterday
8.0
light snow light snow light rain light rain light snow
Mid station 1577 m
1400m 1550m 1700m 2050m 1650m

(980m — 1280m)

3.0 cm
31 days ago
4.0
light rain rain showers rain showers cloud heavy rain
Mid station 1130 m
1350m 1200m 1700m 2150m 1750m

(1600m — 1806m)

snow report yesterday

13 cm
yesterday
4.0
6.0
5.0
light snow light snow light rain light rain light snow
Mid station 1703 m
1000m 1300m 1450m 1900m 1450m

(995m — 1210m)

snow report yesterday

opens in 201 days 1.0 cm
yesterday
rain showers rain showers rain showers mod rain part cloud
Mid station 1102 m
1200m 1450m 1650m 1850m 1450m

(1000m — 1060m)

1.0 cm
35 days ago
part cloud rain showers rain showers clear light rain
Mid station 1030 m
1650m 1600m 1750m 2300m 2350m

(616m — 682m)

1.0 cm
31 days ago
light rain light rain light rain light rain light rain
Mid station 649 m
950m 1350m 1600m 2050m 1600m

(640m — 738m)

4 cm
31 days ago
light rain light rain rain showers light rain part cloud
Mid station 689 m
1300m 1500m 1700m 2100m 1550m

(473m — 756m)

snow report yesterday

2.0 cm
yesterday
light rain rain showers rain showers light rain light rain
Mid station 614 m
950m 1300m 1600m 1900m 1300m

(1469m — 1609m)

snow report yesterday

opens in 201 days 2.0 cm
3 days ago
5.0
2.0
light snow rain showers rain showers light rain light snow
Mid station 1539 m
1100m 1400m 1650m 2050m 1600m

(1341m — 1671m)

snow report yesterday

opens in 215 days 2.0 cm
yesterday
4.0
4.0
light snow rain showers rain showers cloud light snow
Mid station 1506 m
1100m 1400m 1650m 2100m 1550m

(916m — 1003m)

5 cm
31 days ago
thunderstorm rain showers light rain mod rain part cloud
Mid station 960 m
1150m 1450m 1650m 1850m 1450m

(750m — 900m)

5 cm
32 days ago
light rain light rain rain showers light rain light rain
Mid station 825 m
1050m 1450m 1600m 2100m 1700m

(980m — 1579m)

snow report yesterday

5 cm
yesterday
2.0
1.0
light snow light rain light rain light rain light rain
Mid station 1280 m
1000m 1400m 1600m 2100m 1800m

(700m — 1235m)

6 cm
31 days ago
rain showers rain showers rain showers mod rain part cloud
Mid station 968 m
1200m 1450m 1650m 1850m 1450m

(1525m — 1924m)

snow report 3 days ago

1.0 cm
4 days ago
3.0
part cloud light rain clear clear light snow
Mid station 1724 m
1800m 1750m 1700m 2250m 1950m

(1450m — 1690m)

snow report today

opens in 194 days 1.0 cm
yesterday
4.0
5.0
1.0
snow showers rain showers rain showers light rain light snow
Mid station 1570 m
1450m 1300m 1550m 2050m 1450m

(1300m — 1699m)

snow report 15 days ago

1.0 cm
15 days ago
1.0
snow showers rain showers clear rain showers light rain
Mid station 1500 m
1550m 1600m 1750m 2300m 2150m

(1012m — 1215m)

snow report yesterday

2.0 cm
yesterday
1.0
light rain rain showers rain showers light rain light rain
Mid station 1114 m
1150m 1350m 1650m 2050m 1700m

(1116m — 1315m)

snow report yesterday

7 cm
yesterday
2.0
light snow light rain rain showers mod rain rain showers
Mid station 1216 m
1000m 1250m 1600m 1950m 1550m

(396m — 657m)

2.0 cm
31 days ago
light rain light rain rain showers cloud light rain
Mid station 526 m
900m 1300m 1650m 2150m 1600m

(1004m — 1779m)

snow report yesterday

opens in 208 days 1.0 cm
yesterday
7.0
7.0
light snow rain showers rain showers light rain mod snow
Mid station 1392 m
1250m 1200m 1700m 2100m 1400m

(1040m — 1433m)

1.0 cm
30 days ago
4.0
7.0
light rain rain showers rain showers light rain mod snow
Mid station 1236 m
1250m 1150m 1700m 2150m 1350m

(1579m — 1700m)

snow report 15 days ago

1.0 cm
15 days ago
6.0
4.0
light snow light snow rain showers rain showers light rain
Mid station 1640 m
1600m 1550m 1600m 2150m 2050m

(1409m — 1629m)

snow report 3 days ago

1.0 cm
4 days ago
part cloud rain showers clear clear light rain
Mid station 1519 m
1850m 1750m 1700m 2300m 2000m

(1000m — 2030m)

snow report 2 days ago

2.0 cm
3 days ago
7.0
5.0
1.0
light snow light rain light rain part cloud light snow
Mid station 1515 m
1400m 1250m 1750m 2150m 1950m

(1200m — 1500m)

snow report yesterday

2.0 cm
yesterday
1.0
light rain rain showers rain showers light rain light snow
Mid station 1350 m
1200m 1400m 1650m 2050m 1550m

(1101m — 1183m)

1.0 cm
31 days ago
rain showers rain showers cloud mod rain part cloud
Mid station 1142 m
1450m 1650m 1700m 1900m 1550m

(1133m — 1725m)

3.0 cm
31 days ago
1.0
light snow light rain rain showers rain showers light rain
Mid station 1429 m
1600m 1550m 1750m 2250m 2000m

(674m — 970m)

5 cm
31 days ago
rain showers rain showers rain showers mod rain part cloud
Mid station 822 m
1200m 1450m 1650m 1850m 1450m

(1650m — 2010m)

snow report today

3.0 cm
yesterday
6.0
5.0
4.0
snow showers light snow rain showers rain showers light snow
Mid station 1830 m
1450m 1300m 1550m 2000m 1850m

(725m — 850m)

4 cm
32 days ago
mod rain light rain rain showers light rain light rain
Mid station 788 m
1050m 1350m 1550m 2050m 1750m

(650m — 750m)

6 cm
32 days ago
light rain rain showers rain showers cloud mod rain
Mid station 700 m
1100m 1350m 1650m 2100m 1450m

(1100m — 1480m)

snow report yesterday

10 cm
yesterday
3.0
light snow light rain rain showers mod rain light rain
Mid station 1290 m
1050m 1250m 1500m 1850m 1500m

(860m — 1301m)

snow report yesterday

8 cm
yesterday
mod rain light rain rain showers light rain light rain
Mid station 1080 m
950m 1250m 1500m 2000m 1600m

(1320m — 1973m)

snow report today

2.0 cm
yesterday
6.0
4.0
1.0
light rain light snow rain showers rain showers light snow
Mid station 1646 m
1350m 1150m 1200m 1750m 1900m