Snow days at Romania’s ski resorts, winter by winter since 2004
Rânca: snow days in every winter since 2004
Rânca: in winter 2025–26, the 1 km satellite map showed snow on the runs on 96 days between December and March. Since 2014, on the same map: 108 days a winter on average, from 88 to 121.
Here the comparison with ERA5-Land shows a jump of 10.2 days at the 2014 map change, so a comparison with the first decade would be uncertain.
| Winter | Snow days, Dec–Mar, 4 km map | 1 km map |
|---|---|---|
| 2004–05 | 101 | – |
| 2005–06 | 116 | – |
| 2006–07 | 60 | – |
| 2007–08 | 104 | – |
| 2008–09 | 95 | – |
| 2009–10 | 108 | – |
| 2010–11 | 117 | – |
| 2011–12 | 113 | – |
| 2012–13 | 117 | – |
| 2013–14 | 118 | – |
| 2014–15 | 121 | 119 |
| 2015–16 | 117 | 111 |
| 2016–17 | 117 | 108 |
| 2017–18 | 121 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | 116 | 114 |
| 2019–20 | 105 | 93 |
| 2020–21 | 120 | 118 |
| 2021–22 | 121 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 114 | 100 |
| 2023–24 | 120 | 88 |
| 2024–25 | 111 | 109 |
| 2025–26 | 119 | 96 |
A resort means its alpine ski runs in OpenStreetMap. For each map cell, the length of run passing through it was measured; a day counts as “snowy” when cells marked as snow-covered hold at least half the length of the runs. Bâlea Lac has no mapped runs and is a single point at the lake. Durău and Cavnic have few mapped runs.