The winter, wrapped

Arapahoe Basin Ski Area

The 2025/26 ski season

November 2025 to April 2026

Lean season
142cm of snow (1.4m)Every flake counted.

Arapahoe Basin Ski Area saw 142cm of snow across the 2025/26 season, down 35% on last winter, with 1 fewer powder day than last year. That puts it 30th snowiest of the last 31 winters.

0
powder daysmornings over 15cm, worth setting an alarm for.
10cm
biggest single daythe mountain reset overnight on 6 Mar 2026.
41cm
deepest basemeasured on 7 Mar 2026.
33cm
snowiest monthApril 2026 stole the show.
20cm
best weekseven days from 30 Nov 2025.
63%
of a typical winter's snowfall. A leaner year than usual.

Snow reliability

83/100
ExcellentTypically about 136 ski days a season, declining by 3 days per decade.

Snowfall by season

The 30th snowiest of the last 31 winters.

95/9625096/9726697/9818998/9922499/0020300/0118901/0214102/0324403/0419504/0521605/0622706/0722907/0825308/0925309/1021910/1124711/1214412/1319513/1427014/1518815/1626116/1725017/1820918/1925219/2021920/2120921/2222622/2323523/2424624/2521725/26142

Snowfall by month

April was a late-season surge, with 23% of the season's snow.

Nov14Dec27Jan18Feb30Mar21Apr33

Modelled base-altitude snowfall from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus), EM Snow archive. The grid sits near resort base, not the summit, so treat totals as a valley-level estimate.

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