The winter, wrapped

Purgatory

The 2025/26 ski season

November 2025 to April 2026

Lean season
200cm of snow (2.0m)A proper winter on the hill.

Purgatory saw 200cm of snow across the 2025/26 season, down 7% on last winter. That puts it 30th snowiest of the last 31 winters.

1
powder daymornings over 15cm, worth setting an alarm for.
24cm
biggest single daythe mountain reset overnight on 1 Apr 2026.
44cm
deepest basemeasured on 20 Feb 2026.
68cm
snowiest monthApril 2026 stole the show.
35cm
best weekseven days from 14 Feb 2026.
70%
of a typical winter's snowfall. A leaner year than usual.

Snow reliability

84/100
ExcellentTypically about 141 ski days a season, declining by 1 days per decade.

Snowfall by season

The 30th snowiest of the last 31 winters.

95/9628496/9735597/9828798/9930299/0026700/0128501/0217002/0323903/0433404/0538205/0626106/0724607/0834508/0933209/1031710/1131811/1221912/1324513/1426614/1526915/1632516/1738717/1821218/1940419/2027920/2126921/2227522/2338223/2429624/2521525/26200

Snowfall by month

April was a late-season surge, with 34% of the season's snow.

Nov28Dec20Jan27Feb45Mar11Apr68

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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