About half of Italy’s ski centres have closed for winter 16-17 including most of those in the Dolomites, which had very little natural snow so winter never really happened, although thankfully they were saved by snowmaking.
(Livigno pictured top, video below).
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The winter has been more ‘normal’ in the Alps to the West and here most areas are still open to this weekend and in a few cases like Cervinia, which still has Italy’s deepest bae, now down to 1.8m/6 feet, the slopes will stay open in to May.
There’s not been any of the fresh mid-April snow reported in other parts of Europe in Italy so far however. Only Macugnaga has reported about 10cm of snow.
But at most still-open Italian ski areas its classic spring skiing conditions with the best snow high up and between around 10am and 1pm each day.
