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
990–2600 m
Vertical drop
1,610 m
Pistes advertised
75 km
Pistes mapped on OSM
8.6 km
Lifts (mapped near village)
4 · 75% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass
€62
Passes
none
Avg snowfall (mid)
2.9 m / season
Nearest airport
SOF · 150 min
Brochure vs map. Bansko advertises 75 km. OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped 8.6 km of piste centrelines.
The brochure is 772% longer than the map. Resorts often measure the widest line down a slope or count ski routes and linked areas.
Snow & weather updated 1 h ago
Fresh 24 h
0 cm
Fresh 72 h
2 cm
Next 7 days
1 cm
Snow depth top (model)
0 cm
Now at 2450 m
☁️ 3°
Now at 990 m
12°
Gusts at top
16 km/h
Freezing level
2,700 m
8-day forecast (summit)
Today
☁️
·
0° / 4°
💨 51
Fri
🌧️
·
-1° / 2°
💨 19
Sat
🌧️
1 cm
-2° / 1°
💨 36
Sun
🌧️
·
-1° / 1°
💨 68
Mon
🌧️
·
0° / 2°
💨 72
Tue
🌧️
·
-1° / 3°
💨 71
Wed
☁️
·
-2° / 2°
💨 36
Thu
🌫️
·
-8° / 0°
💨 32
Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 2450 m (summit) and 990 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.
The last three winters at 1795 m
Avg snowfall / season
2.9 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
4
Snowy days
41
Avg temp at base
5.3°
Average snowfall by month · best: Jan
Nov
49
Dec
65
Jan
75
Feb
22
Mar
36
Apr
40
By season: 2022/23: 3.4 m · 5 powder days2023/24: 2.6 m · 4 powder days2024/25: 2.6 m · 4 powder days
When to go
Month
Avg snowfall
Tuesday 11:00
Saturday 11:00
Dec
65 cm
~1.3 min
~2.1 min
SWEET SPOT
Jan
75 cm
~2.5 min
~4 min
Feb
22 cm
~4.4 min
~6.9 min
Mar
36 cm
~3 min
~4.9 min
Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).
Lift queues
Closed until Dec 13. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:
SIMULATION
Average wait ~6 min, worst 6 min.
Weekend: locals are outFebruary school holidays across Europe
Simulate:
🚠 Банско - Бъндеришка поляна
Gondola · 8-seater · 2,000 p/h · 3,298 m
6 minpredicted
⤴️ Vlek Chalin
Drag lift · 613 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Chalin Valog
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,045 m · bubble
6 minpredicted
🚠 Банско - Бъндеришка поляна
Gondola · 8-seater · 2,000 p/h · 2,915 m
5 minpredicted
Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)
9h
10h
11h
12h
13h
14h
15h
16h
Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
Sun 21
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 120 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
Beginner
3.5 km · 41%
Easy (blue / green)
2.7 km · 31%
Intermediate (red / blue)
1.6 km · 19%
Advanced (black)
0.8 km · 9%
Longest named runs
Ски път
2.3 km
Чалин валог 2
1.4 km
Чалин валог 1
1.3 km
Банско
1.1 km
Après & food
Bars & pubs
10
Clubs
1
Restaurants
54
Mountain huts
0
🍸 Pivoteka Craft Beer Mountain Base Bankso🍺 Oscar Wine Bar🪩 The Club🍸 Motorhead Cafe Bar🍸 Винарна Тодева къща🍸 Пирин 75🍸 The Lions Pub🍸 Dionis🍺 Amigo pub🍸 Steve's Pub🍺 Chobanska
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Nearest major airport: SOF, about 150 min away by road. Directions · Flights
Bansko is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located in Blagoevgrad Oblast near the city of Razlog. Once mainly a stockbreeding and travelling merchant community, the town is now an international centre for winter and summer tourism. More recently Bansko has become a known hotspot for digital nomads driven in part by the relative affordability of the location combined with its natural scenery. Wikipedia