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Resort dossier
Engelberg
CH·Obwalden
Weeks 1–4
Typically -11.5°C · 27cm fresh / week · powder day 54% · mixed 52%
Top elev.
3028m
Base elev.
1050m
Pistes
82km
Lifts
26
Piste mix42km mapped
Blue40%
Red48%
Black9%
Other3%
COMPOSITE SCORE
70
Snow90
Typically 136cm
Typical depth136cm
106cm163cm
Travel58
From your origin
Size69
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect
What to expect in weeks 1–4
Based on 25 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1362m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically mixed, around -11.5°C, with 27cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 54% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.
Icy mornings
1.0 day/week
spring-like in 11% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
18.7 m/s
peaks to 39 m/s
Typical Freezing level
273 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
54%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
40%
of years
Bluebird
8%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
52%
of years
Climatology
What a season here looks like
Each track shows the typical range across 25 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.
Reliability60cm+
100%
Depth
136cm
Temperature
-11.5°C
Fresh snow
27cm
Snow line
273m
Wind
18.7 m/s
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Transfers
Transfers
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Zürich (ZRH) | 75 min | 105 min |
Method & sources
The composite score weights snow reliability against the historical baseline, pulls in live conditions where available, then adjusts for how much hassle the trip actually is for your group.
- 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
- 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
- 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 35 winters.
- 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
- 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
- 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources
Snow data sources
Ground stations the score is based on.
- TIT2slf
- GAD2slf