Telluride snow report
About 2,000 acres, under half the size of Vail, on 1,172 m of lift-served vertical. The bigger headline figure only exists if you hike: the terrain off Palmyra Peak is an hour or more on foot and wants avalanche competence rather than just fitness. The resort spans two towns, joined by a free gondola.
United States · North America · live from the weather model at 2659–3831 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
Altitude governs everything in the San Juans. Thirty miles apart, Cumbres averages close to 300 inches of snow a season while Manassa in the valley below gets under 25. Telluride sits high in that gradient, and the cold continental snowpack it produces carries persistent weak layers through the winter. Measured seasons have run from 376 cm to 820 cm.
Reading Telluride like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Telluride is the difference between the base (2659 m) and the summit (3831 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.