Garmisch-Classic snow report
The Kandahar's Freier Fall is the steepest section anywhere on the World Cup circuit, and the race pedigree runs back to the 1936 Olympics. Read this page as the Classic area only: the Zugspitze glacier at 2,000 to 2,650 m is a separate ski area on the same pass, with no ski connection, opening two weeks earlier and closing five weeks later.
Germany · Europe · live from the weather model at 740–2050 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
Moist north-westerly fronts pile against the Wetterstein wall in a textbook Nordstau, but this ski area sits at the foot of that wall rather than on top of it. With the lowest lift near 730 m, the same storm that buries the crest can arrive as rain on the Hausberg, which is why around 75% of the terrain is machine-covered and all three valley runs are snowmaking-fed.
Reading Garmisch-Classic like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Garmisch-Classic is the difference between the base (740 m) and the summit (2050 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.