Historical Snow Conditions for 2015-16 season

30cm of fresh powder fell on Tuesday on the higher slopes, giving two days of epic powder runs. The snow below 2,500m is wonderful spring corn. All lifts on the Matterhorn side and in Cervinia are open until May 1st.

Fresh tracks just below the Klein Matterhorn lift on April 20th:

Snow depth is 20% above the long-term average: Top 250cm, Middle 172cm, Village 65cm. We had snowfalls totalling 76cm giving outstanding off-piste conditions and superb on-piste. Temperatures are still wintery which means the snow is staying fresh.The photos below were taken on March 12th, one week after the last snowfall. This is the miracle of Zermatt. Do also have a look at the videos of this day.

DUMP ALERT: 73cm of snow are forecast to fall over the next three days by Onthesnow.com

Conditions are very good with grippy wintery powdery snow everywhere. The steep yellow (a.k.a. black) runs are opening, and there is still some lovely powder to be found off-piste as you can see from the photo below of the Gourmet Ski Guide's wife Belinda tracking fresh powder on Rothorn on Monday.

It has snowed an amazing total of 144cm over the last 7 days. The off-piste is now also great: it's a real winter finally!

The new snow has settled and been perfectly groomed, giving outstanding piste skiing conditions – although not much off piste I'm afraid. 255km of runs are open and all five sectors are interlinked: Sunnegga, Gornergrat, Matterhorn, Cervinia and Valtournenche.

Here is a webcam still image from Sunnegga:

It has been snowing almost continuously for the last 7 days with a total of 160cm of fresh snow on the mountain. This is now giving us a snow base of 50cm in the village and 290cm at the top (Plateau Rosa). This quantity is in line with the long-term average for this time of year. The skiing will be oustanding as soon as the run grooming is finished. Time for a short break / long weekend?

We had a good snowfall over the last two days, with a total of 30cm at the top and 18cm in the village. The piste conditions have improved and are much softer and fluffier than they were the previous week. More snow is forecast over the next few days.

The Gornergrat area on January 4th:

the last snowfall was a small one of 5cm on December 16th. Nonetheless, due to the extensive glaciers and superb snowmaking, in Zermatt / Cervinia 63 runs are open giving 177km of excellent skiing. All resort runs are also open.

The Ventina run on December 20th:

Over the last week we have had a total snowfall of 45cm on both the Swiss and Italian sides, and it snowed down to Zermatt village for the first time – the resort is white. The Ventina run to Cime Bianche is superb. The Sunnegga and Gornergrat areas will be opening on December 5th, it's a great time for early season skiing on uncrowded slopes.