Ski Sweden

It’s a little known fact to those who ski Sweden that the northerly European country has one of the largest counts of ski areas for anywhere in the world – with some 500 ski hills – albeit 95% of them small, single rope tow hills, next to villages across the country.

However the country is home to several internationally famous Swedish ski resorts, including the World Alpine Skiing Championships resort of Are-Duved (Åre), the most popular of the nearly 1,000 ski resorts and hills of Scandinavia, and Riksgränsen up 200km within the Arctic Circle where the lifts don't open until February but keep running well in to June, for skiing and boarding under the midnight sun from late May, and affordable heli-skiing.

This is where many die-hard skiers and boarders, who can’t accept that winter must end, head for each April.

There’s a very long history of cross country skiing in Sweden just as in the other Scandic nations, with old skis dating back more than 4,000 years old preserved in bogs. Downhill skiing has also been possible here as long as the sport has existed.

Swedish ski resorts also have both the advantages and disadvantages of other Scandinavian skiing nations - short cold days in midwinter (there is a lot of floodlighting of pistes to compensate for this), balanced by long days from April to June as the season stretches on when the snow has long gone from the Alps and the Rockies. Many of the world's top skiers head to Sweden at that time.

On the slopes there’s a predominance of small ski hills with small verticals and mostly short easy runs served by drag lifts rather than chair or gondola lifts except at the big resorts like Are.

Sweden’s ski resorts are also known for being particularly family friendly however, which includes free skiing for children up to age 7 or 8 in some resorts, friendly and relaxed child care and ski school and high safety standards on the slopes.

There's also the reputation for high prices, which is no longer really true compared to the Alps or Rockies, except in the case of alcoholic drink, which is expensive. Many of Sweden's top resorts have long histories and have developed in a similar way to the classic Swiss ski centres. Other well known centres such as Sålen and Funåsdalen offer similar expanses of terrain, although most are actually made up of numerous small areas.

There are also unique experiences such as the Storlien Mountain Resort hotel which has its own lifts as well as a vast array of non-ski alternatives on offer, all delivered from a setting of timeless ambiance.

Riksgransen, Are and other famous resorts have been rail-linked for a century or more, and it is a Swedish ski tradition to climb on to trains equipped with restaurants, discotheques, sleeping cars and play rooms in Stockholm in the evening and party north overnight to the ski centres.
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Sweden: latest snow conditions round-up

Summary of forecast snowfall and ski conditions for resorts in Sweden. Fresh snow is forecast at 11 resorts. Powder is reported at 0 resorts and 0 are reporting good piste conditions.

All resorts

Ski resorts of Sweden, 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)
Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed

(384m — 1274m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 140 days 4 cm
31 days ago
clear clear part cloud clear part cloud
Mid station 829 m
3500m 3950m 3850m 3500m 3500m

(429m — 958m)

snow report 30 days ago

1.0 cm
31 days ago
cloud clear clear clear clear
Mid station 694 m
2950m 4000m 3900m 3750m 3250m

(565m — 950m)

1.0 cm
49 days ago
clear part cloud thunderstorm rain showers clear
Mid station 758 m
3650m 3900m 3650m 3500m 3400m

(217m — 400m)

1.0 cm
51 days ago
clear light rain rain showers light rain rain showers
Mid station 308 m
3800m 3700m 3400m 3250m 3300m

(152m — 567m)

4 cm
51 days ago
clear light rain rain showers mod rain thunderstorm
Mid station 360 m
3800m 3550m 3250m 3150m 3150m

(590m — 1010m)

snow report 31 days ago

2.0 cm
31 days ago
clear clear thunderstorm part cloud clear
Mid station 800 m
3500m 4000m 3800m 3450m 3550m

(599m — 1199m)

1.0 cm
33 days ago
clear part cloud thunderstorm thunderstorm clear
Mid station 899 m
3450m 3900m 3600m 3500m 3400m

(375m — 832m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 140 days 1.0 cm
41 days ago
part cloud clear clear clear clear
Mid station 604 m
3250m 3900m 3900m 3750m 3350m

(910m — 1219m)

6 cm
50 days ago
clear cloud rain showers clear clear
Mid station 1064 m
3900m 3900m 3700m 3650m 3600m

(648m — 1312m)

snow report 11 days ago

Hemavan and Tärnaby webcam
opens in 140 days 1.0 cm
31 days ago
part cloud part cloud clear clear part cloud
Mid station 980 m
3350m 4200m 4050m 3650m 3600m

(446m — 592m)

5 cm
51 days ago
clear light rain part cloud light rain thunderstorm
Mid station 519 m
3750m 3500m 3100m 3100m 2950m

(710m — 892m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 147 days 4 cm
49 days ago
clear thunderstorm light rain thunderstorm rain showers
Mid station 801 m
3600m 3800m 3500m 3350m 3200m

(158m — 310m)

3.0 cm
on 12 Mar
light rain light rain mod rain rain showers rain showers
Mid station 234 m
3550m 3000m 2950m 2800m 2700m

(170m — 370m)

4 cm
51 days ago
clear light rain thunderstorm rain showers clear
Mid station 270 m
3850m 3800m 3600m 3550m 3550m

(360m — 570m)

snow report yesterday

opens in 98 days 1.0 cm
51 days ago
part cloud clear clear part cloud part cloud
Mid station 465 m
3250m 4050m 3950m 3550m 3350m

(442m — 598m)

3.0 cm
53 days ago
cloud clear clear clear clear
Mid station 520 m
3100m 3900m 3900m 3800m 3250m

(700m — 1700m)

snow report 21 days ago

3.0 cm
21 days ago
part cloud part cloud clear clear part cloud
Mid station 1200 m
3450m 4150m 4050m 3700m 3550m

(420m — 665m)

2.0 cm
50 days ago
clear thunderstorm rain showers mod rain thunderstorm
Mid station 542 m
3850m 3650m 3300m 3100m 3250m

(525m — 940m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 140 days 1.0 cm
49 days ago
clear part cloud thunderstorm rain showers clear
Mid station 732 m
3650m 3900m 3700m 3550m 3400m

(104m — 305m)

6 cm
83 days ago
part cloud light rain part cloud thunderstorm clear
Mid station 204 m
3800m 3600m 3400m 3300m 3350m

(633m — 1125m)

7 cm
49 days ago
clear thunderstorm thunderstorm thunderstorm cloud
Mid station 879 m
3650m 3850m 3550m 3450m 3250m

(235m — 330m)

4 cm
51 days ago
light rain cloud mod rain thunderstorm light rain
Mid station 282 m
3550m 3100m 2900m 2950m 2850m

(500m — 910m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 224 days 1.0 cm
30 days ago
2.0
cloud clear clear clear clear
Mid station 705 m
2900m 3950m 3950m 3750m 3300m

(150m — 400m)

Romme Alpin webcam
1.0 cm
51 days ago
part cloud light rain part cloud light rain rain showers
Mid station 275 m
3750m 3600m 3400m 3200m 3250m

(290m — 470m)

5 cm
51 days ago
part cloud light rain part cloud light rain thunderstorm
Mid station 380 m
3800m 3500m 3300m 3200m 3050m

(350m — 890m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 153 days 3.0 cm
50 days ago
clear thunderstorm rain showers light rain thunderstorm
Mid station 620 m
3850m 3650m 3350m 3050m 3250m

(640m — 831m)

5 cm
43 days ago
clear clear part cloud clear part cloud
Mid station 736 m
3550m 3900m 3800m 3550m 3500m

(483m — 853m)

1.0 cm
49 days ago
clear thunderstorm rain showers light rain thunderstorm
Mid station 668 m
3850m 3650m 3300m 3150m 3250m

(19m — 179m)

1.0 cm
92 days ago
clear clear thunderstorm clear part cloud
Mid station 99 m
3550m 3950m 3800m 3450m 3450m

(100m — 365m)

1.0 cm
51 days ago
rain showers rain showers cloud mod rain light rain
Mid station 232 m
3700m 3450m 3150m 3100m 2900m

(650m — 890m)

2.0 cm
49 days ago
clear thunderstorm rain showers mod rain thunderstorm
Mid station 770 m
3850m 3650m 3300m 3100m 3250m

(439m — 789m)

snow report 11 days ago

opens in 133 days 2.0 cm
52 days ago
part cloud part cloud clear clear part cloud
Mid station 614 m
3400m 4200m 4050m 3650m 3600m

(100m — 240m)

2.0 cm
79 days ago
light rain part cloud thunderstorm cloud light rain
Mid station 170 m
3550m 3050m 3000m 2950m 2850m

(1359m — 1600m)

snow report 5 days ago

6 cm
6 days ago
clear clear thunderstorm clear part cloud
Mid station 1480 m
3550m 3950m 3800m 3500m 3500m

(163m — 300m)

6 cm
51 days ago
cloud cloud mod rain thunderstorm rain showers
Mid station 232 m
3600m 3100m 2950m 2950m 2750m

(8m — 152m)

6 cm
on 13 Mar
rain showers rain showers thunderstorm thunderstorm clear
Mid station 80 m
3300m 2900m 3000m 2800m 2600m

(590m — 930m)

4 cm
49 days ago
clear part cloud thunderstorm rain showers clear
Mid station 760 m
3650m 3900m 3650m 3550m 3350m