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

Ratings

❄️ Snow

4.4

⛰️ Terrain

1.1

🚠 Lifts

5.8

⏱️ Queues

4.6

💸 Value

3.1

🍻 Après

0.0

✈️ Access

8.7

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	1508–2319 m
Vertical drop	811 m
Pistes advertised	2,765 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	0 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	0 · 40% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	CA$149
Passes	none
Avg snowfall (mid)	3.1 m / season
Nearest airport	YLW · 50 min

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h

7 cm

Fresh 72 h

19 cm

Next 7 days

0 cm

Snow depth top (model)

27 cm

Now at 2169 m

☁️ -10°

Now at 1508 m

-4°

Gusts at top

17 km/h

Freezing level

580 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today

🌫️

·

-11° / -5°

💨 28

Fri

☁️

·

-9° / -1°

💨 38

Sat

☁️

·

-9° / 1°

💨 25

Sun

☁️

·

-7° / 0°

💨 11

Mon

☁️

·

-8° / 2°

💨 14

Tue

☁️

·

-7° / 2°

💨 9

Wed

🌤️

·

-7° / 4°

💨 10

Thu

☁️

·

-5° / 2°

💨 11

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 2169 m (summit) and 1508 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 1914 m

Avg snowfall / season

3.1 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

1

Snowy days

78

Avg temp at base

-5.3°

Average snowfall by month · best: Nov

Nov

67

Dec

56

Jan

42

Feb

56

Mar

52

Apr

42

By season: 2022/23: 3.0 m · 2 powder days2023/24: 3.2 m · 1 powder days2024/25: 3.2 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

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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

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: YLW, about 50 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Big White Ski Resort, simply known as Big White, is a ski resort located 56 km (35 mi) southeast of Kelowna in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. It is located on Big White Mountain, the highest summit in the Okanagan Highland, an upland area between the Monashee Mountains and the Okanagan Valley. Big White is the fourth largest resort in British Columbia, after Whistler-Blackcomb, Sun Peaks, and Silver Star. Wikipedia