About

Powder to the People

Snow reports used to be free. We think they still should be. No paywall, no ads, no “pro” tier, no pop-ups. Just the number, where it came from, and when.

Every resort, one board

Nearly 400 ski areas across the US and Canada with 24-hour, 7-day, 10-day and season-to-date snow, plus percent of normal where station history exists.

Public data, labeled honestly

Observed snow comes from NRCS SNOTEL and RCC-ACIS stations when a resort has one nearby. Everything else is modeled from Open-Meteo and says so.

Free and open

No paywall, no ads, no account. The code and the resort catalog are open so anyone can fix a station link or add a hill.

How to read the numbers

24h: New snow in the last day. Observed from a linked station when available, otherwise modeled.
Last 7d: New snow over the last 7 days. Observed station total where linked, otherwise modeled.
Next 10d: Forecast snowfall for the next 10 days at the resort's summit grid point (modeled).
Season: Season-to-date total since October 1. Rebuilt daily from the Open-Meteo archive or station records.
% of normal: Season-to-date versus the average of the last 10 completed seasons on the same date. The window rolls forward each October. Shown as “pre-season” until there is enough snow to compare.

Data sources

NOAA / National Weather ServicePoint forecasts and active alerts for US resorts.
RCC-ACISDaily station snowfall and long-run climate summaries.
USDA NRCS SNOTELSnow water equivalent, depth and percent of median at mountain telemetry sites.
Open-MeteoModeled forecasts and archive at each resort's summit grid point (CC BY 4.0).
North American ski resort catalogResort locations and summit elevations (Parthum & Christensen, CC BY 4.0).
OpenFreeMap / OpenStreetMapMap tiles. © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Not for avalanche or backcountry safety decisions. Always check your regional avalanche center.

Keep the lights on

This site costs about a lift ticket a month to run and will never charge you for a number. If your shop, resort or brand wants its name on a snow report that will never sell your attention, say hello. A line of text and a link, labeled as a sponsor. No tracking, no pop-ups. I’ll be picky.

Say hello

Skiing in Europe?

Powder Union is our sister site: free snow reports for 650-plus ski areas across Europe, from the Alps and the Pyrenees to the Nordics and the Balkans, built by a friend on the same idea. No ads, no login.

Visit Powder Union

Keep it free

This runs on hosting and API budgets the size of a lift ticket. If it helped you find a good day, chip in.

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AI & developers

Read-only snapshots for assistants and apps: llms.txt, the MCP endpoint (discovery), and OpenAPI. Please cite https://powdertothepeople.org and respect upstream data licenses.

Contact

Missing resort, wrong station, bad number, feature idea? Send it through the contact form.

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