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Banff Sunshine

⛰️ 1660–2730 m (1070 m vertical) · 🎟️ CA$169 day pass (≈ €112) · 📅 Nov 8 to May 25
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5.0
Snowlist score
Photo: Wikipedia

Ratings

❄️ Snow
2.5
⛰️ Terrain
1.6
🚠 Lifts
5.8
⏱️ Queues
4.6
💸 Value
2.0
🍻 Après
0.0
✈️ Access
6.5

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

Altitude1660–2730 m
Vertical drop1,070 m
Pistes advertised3,358 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM0 km
Lifts (mapped near village)0 · 40% gondola/4+ chair
Day passCA$169
PassesIkon
Avg snowfall (mid)1.7 m / season
Nearest airportYYC · 105 min

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h
1 cm
Fresh 72 h
1 cm
Next 7 days
0 cm
Snow depth top (model)
7 cm
Now at 2580 m
☀️ -13°
Now at 1660 m
-9°
Gusts at top
12 km/h
Freezing level
590 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today
🌤️
·
-13° / -7°
💨 29
Fri
☁️
·
-11° / -1°
💨 23
Sat
☁️
·
-13° / -2°
💨 21
Sun
☁️
·
-12° / -1°
💨 6
Mon
☁️
·
-12° / -2°
💨 8
Tue
🌫️
·
-9° / -3°
💨 9
Wed
🌤️
·
-11° / 1°
💨 6
Thu
☁️
·
-9° / 2°
💨 7

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 2580 m (summit) and 1660 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 2195 m

Avg snowfall / season
1.7 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
0
Snowy days
45
Avg temp at base
-6.9°
Average snowfall by month · best: Mar
Nov
29
Dec
30
Jan
12
Feb
29
Mar
35
Apr
33
By season: 2022/23: 1.7 m · 0 powder days2023/24: 1.9 m · 0 powder days2024/25: 1.4 m · 0 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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Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
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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

· 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: YYC, about 105 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Banff Sunshine Village is a ski resort in western Canada, located on the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies within Banff National Park in Alberta and Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia. It is one of three major ski resorts located in the Banff National Park. Because of its location straddling the Continental Divide of the Americas, Sunshine receives more snow than the neighbouring ski resorts. The Sunshine base area is located 15 km (9 mi) southwest of the town of Banff. By car, it is 140 km (87 mi) from the city of Calgary; the Sunshine exit on the Trans Canada Highway is 8 km (5 mi) west of the town of Banff. Wikipedia