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Ski resort

Donovaly, Slovakia

Niżne Tatry / Wielka Fatra

A chairlift top station above a snowy Donovaly piste, ski tracks under a blue sky
photo Park_Snow_Donovaly_-_chairlift.JPG: Pudelek (Marcin Szala) derivative work: Lolo42 (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Altitude
915 mbase station 1,350 mtop station 435 mvertical drop
Pistes 9 km blue 50%, red 48% Lifts 22 14 named on the list Snowfall
213 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass dynamic pricing www.parksnow.sk, checked 2026-08-14 Places to stay 0 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 409 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 4.2 km
  • red 4.0 km
  • black 0.2 km

The split comes from OpenStreetMap. A run with no difficulty tag falls into none of the three bars, so they can add up to less than the resort total.

Piste map

Drawn by us from open data, with terrain shading. Interactive: zoom, pan and follow the runs right here.

Base map: OpenFreeMap on data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), terrain relief: Mapterhorn
This is a geographic map, not the painted panorama a resort publishes: the runs are where they really are, but the mountain is not drawn as a bird’s-eye view.

Lift pass

Prices are dynamic — they depend on the day you ski and how early you buy, so there is no single number to give. Check the resort’s price list.

Resort price list · Price list checked on 2026-08-14.

When to go

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at 804 m above sea level.

28 Nov
54 Dec
57 Jan
42 Feb
20 Mar
12 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
day 5° 1° -1° 2° 6° 11°
night 1° -3° -5° -3° -1° 2°

This is snowfall, not snow depth on the slope: it says how much usually falls in a given month, not how much lies there. The measuring point sits close to the valley floor, so higher up it snows more.

Source: ERA5-Land (ECMWF), Copernicus Climate Data Store. Averaged over 2017–2026.

School holidays and slope crowds

Which weeks of winter 2026/2027 fill these slopes with school-holiday traffic — computed from the official school calendars of the countries that ski here most. A darker week means more markets on holiday at once.

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr

quiet moderate holiday peak

Holiday dates from official sources: CZ, PL.

Lifts

Names and types from OpenStreetMap. Unnamed lifts are left out of this list, so it can be shorter than the count at the top of the page.

  • Buly Expres chairlift
  • Dvojča I. T-bar
  • Dvojča II. platter lift
  • Funpark - Patty Ski platter lift
  • Lomená Poma platter lift
  • Mišúty platter lift
  • P1 Približovací I. platter lift
  • P2 Približovací II. platter lift
  • P3 Colníci platter lift
  • P5 Bistro platter lift
  • Patočiny platter lift
  • Prepojovací I. platter lift
  • Telemix Nová hoľa mixed lift
  • Triangel P4 platter lift

Places to stay by the lift

Distance is measured in a straight line to the base station of the nearest lift. No booking site publishes that number — it comes from matching accommodation against lift geometry.

  • 0 within 300 m
  • 108 within 1 km
  • 199 places in the valley

The closest one stands 409 m from a lift.

Work out the cost of the triptest version

The planner splits travel, lodging and lift passes by the number of people. Room prices are fetched for the dates you give.

work in progress

Photos

Skiers on a snowy Donovaly piste among the frosted trees (Nová hoľa)
photo Pe3kZA · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Donovaly worth it?

Donovaly sits on the pass between the Low Tatras and the Veľká Fatra in central Slovakia, away from the Tatra crowds. It is a family resort first of all -- with a large ski school, a separate children's park and gentle slopes on both sides of the pass.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 9 km of pistes, served by a good number of lifts for its size. The runs are mostly easy and intermediate -- a place for learning and for cruising rather than for sporting challenges.

The slopes reach around 1,350 m and the lower ends drop to 900 m; snowmaking covers the whole area. The season usually runs from December to March.

The lift-pass price at Donovaly is dynamic -- the resort sets it by day and by how far ahead you buy, cheaper in advance, so we give no single figure; check it with the operator as you book. The drive from Poland is, per OpenStreetMap, about 435 km from Wrocław, 250 from Katowice and 188 from Kraków.

Resorts nearby

Straight-line distance, from the OpenStreetMap roster — the road through the valley is usually longer. The second figure is piste length.

  • Turecká Slovakia 10 km away · 5 km of piste
  • Šachtičky Slovakia 10 km away · 8 km of piste
  • Malinô Brdo Slovakia 20 km away · 12 km of piste
  • Chopok Juh Slovakia 27 km away · 50 km of piste
  • Chopok Jasná Slovakia 28 km away · 81 km of piste
  • Snowland Slovakia 35 km away · 5 km of piste
  • Win ter park Martinky Slovakia 38 km away · 8 km of piste
  • Vrátna Slovakia 39 km away · 12 km of piste

Compare Donovaly with its neighbours: Donovaly vs Jasná · Donovaly vs Štrbské Pleso · Donovaly vs Zakopane (Kasprowy Wierch) · Donovaly vs Tatrzańska Łomnica

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Where this comes from

Piste and lift geometry and their names: OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL licence.

Terrain shading computed from public elevation data.