Afriski snow report
One groomed kilometre and about 190 m of vertical on surface lifts, with 20 snow machines doing essentially all of the work: a single night of snowmaking lays 20 cm along a kilometre of slope. Being the only operating ski resort in Africa, at over 3,000 m in the Mountain Kingdom, is the reason to come. The terrain is 67% easy, 33% intermediate and 0% difficult.
Lesotho · Southern Hemisphere · live from the weather model at 3030–3222 m
Conditions right now
Read at summit elevation the moment you opened this page.
Hourly windows, accumulation ranges, confidence and travel flags, or the transparent 0–100 Ski Meter score.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), adapted for display. Elevations are approximate published figures; forecasts are model estimates, not guarantees.
The mountain right now
The live freezing level drawn on the elevation profile. Above the snow line, precipitation falls and stays as snow.
Terrain shape is schematic; elevations are the resort's approximate published figures.
Why it snows here
At 28.8°S this exists only because of altitude: above 3,000 m on the Maluti plateau, nights fall reliably below freezing while the days stay warm. Snow arrives episodically rather than on a storm track, and a 14-year study of the Lesotho Highlands counts an average of 11.5 snowfalls a year across the whole region, 68% of them lasting under five days.
Reading Afriski like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Afriski is the difference between the base (3030 m) and the summit (3222 m): when the freezing level sits between the two, the mountain is split into rain or wet snow below and dry snow above. The Ski Meter reads the model at both elevations and scores the day with every point accounted for; the full report adds hourly timing, accumulation ranges and confidence tags so you can decide when to travel, not just whether.