Yongpyong snow report
Korea's first ski resort, running since 1975 and still its largest, now branded Mona Yongpyong. It hosted the 2018 Olympic slalom and giant slalom; the speed events were at Jeongseon, a separate venue. The terrain is groomed and intermediate-heavy, night skiing runs to 23:00, and the cover is almost entirely machine-made.
South Korea · Asia · live from the weather model at 700–1458 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 Siberian High sends cold, very dry continental air over Korea, which makes excellent snowmaking weather and very little snow. Real snowfall needs a different setup: north-easterly flow crossing the East Sea, loading with moisture, then forced up the steep eastern face of the Taebaek range. That is the same family as Japan's sea-effect snow, but far weaker and far less frequent.
Reading Yongpyong like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Yongpyong is the difference between the base (700 m) and the summit (1458 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.