Alta snow report & forecast, lift queues, ski-in/out hotels

Ratings

❄️ Snow

6.9

⛰️ Terrain

0.7

🚠 Lifts

5.8

⏱️ Queues

4.6

💸 Value

2.1

🍻 Après

0.0

✈️ Access

8.8

Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.

Key facts

Altitude	2600–3216 m
Vertical drop	616 m
Pistes advertised	2,614 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	0 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	0 · 40% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	$199
Passes	Ikon
Avg snowfall (mid)	5.0 m / season
Nearest airport	SLC · 45 min

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h

0 cm

Fresh 72 h

0 cm

Next 7 days

20 cm

Snow depth top (model)

0 cm

Now at 3066 m

⛅ -2°

Now at 2600 m

1°

Gusts at top

27 km/h

Freezing level

2,710 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today

☁️

·

-3° / 3°

💨 42

Fri

❄️

2 cm

-1° / 2°

💨 54

Sat

🌦️

·

-1° / 3°

💨 29

Sun

❄️

10 cm

-5° / 0°

💨 21

Mon

🌨️

8 cm

-7° / -5°

💨 16

Tue

☁️

·

-12° / -3°

💨 6

Wed

☁️

·

-5° / 3°

💨 10

Thu

☁️

·

-3° / 1°

💨 7

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 3066 m (summit) and 2600 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 2908 m

Avg snowfall / season

5.0 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

6

Snowy days

75

Avg temp at base

-4.5°

Average snowfall by month · best: Mar

Nov

58

Dec

71

Jan

101

Feb

97

Mar

117

Apr

57

By season: 2022/23: 6.3 m · 8 powder days2023/24: 4.7 m · 4 powder days2024/25: 4.1 m · 6 powder days

Lift queues

No lifts are mapped on OpenStreetMap around this village yet. Map them and they will show up here after the next rebuild.

Simulate:

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

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Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.

How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.

Map

Pistes (OpenSnowMap) Lifts by queue Hotels Bars 3D· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 0 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.

Pistes

Longest named runs

Après & food

Bars & pubs

0

Clubs

0

Restaurants

0

Mountain huts

0

Reviews

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: SLC, about 45 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of 2,614 acres (10.58 km2), Alta's base elevation is 8,530 ft (2,600 m) and rises to 11,068 ft (3,374 m) for a vertical gain of 2,538 ft (774 m). One of the oldest ski resorts in the country, it opened its first lift on January 15, 1939. Alta is known for receiving more snow than most Utah resorts, with an average annual snowfall of 543 inches (13.8 m). It is also regularly ranked as having the best snow in North America. Wikipedia