Bansko snow report
The Balkans' flagship resort: a medieval town at the base, one gondola to a high alpine bowl. Value-for-money skiing whose snow is more reliable than its queues.
Bulgaria · Europe · live from the weather model at 990–2600 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
The Pirin range stands in the path of Mediterranean lows tracking up from the Aegean: southern storms can deliver a metre while central Europe is dry.
Reading Bansko like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Bansko is the difference between the base (990 m) and the summit (2600 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.