Revelstoke snow report
The largest lift-served vertical in North America by the resort's own measure, 1,713 m, and the same number is the weakness: a 512 m base in a wet-belt climate means rain and tired cover down low while the alpine is deep. Four mountain lifts serve 3,121 acres, so one wind hold shrinks the mountain, and only 12% of the terrain is green.
Canada · North America · live from the weather model at 512–2225 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
Second-stage orographic lift. Pacific fronts are wrung out first over the Coast Mountains, cross the Interior Plateau, then meet the Monashees and Selkirks and re-intensify. This is the Interior Wetbelt, where Pacific air meets continental cold: an inland maritime snowpack, deep and comparatively stable, and the resort publishes an average of 10.5 m a season.
Reading Revelstoke like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Revelstoke is the difference between the base (512 m) and the summit (2225 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.