Ski resort

Sestriere (Via Lattea), Italy

Piemont

The slopes of Sestriere in evening light, the Turin 2006 Olympic monument in the foreground — photo Ainars Brūvelis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Pistes 124 km blue 48%, red 34% Lifts 21 20 named on the list Snowfall

Lift pass 49 EUR per person per day www.vialattea.it, checked 2026-08-13 Places to stay 66 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 37 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

blue 58.9 km
red 41.7 km
black 22.2 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

49 EUR per person per day

A 6-day pass costs 295 EUR.

Resort price list · Price list checked on 2026-08-13.

How much snow is forecast

No snowfall is forecast for the days ahead — computed for 2,597 m above sea level.

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This is a weather-model forecast, not a measurement taken on the mountain: it says how much snow is expected to fall. Forecast: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0. Data fetched 15 August, 05:26.

See where most snow is coming

When to go

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at 1,996 m above sea level.

99 Nov

121 Dec

101 Jan

78 Feb

123 Mar

81 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
day	2°	-2°	-3°	0°	1°	5°
night	-5°	-8°	-9°	-7°	-6°	-3°

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, DE, FR, GB, PL. Dates for GB are approximate — they are set locally by region, school or council.

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.

Anfiteatro magic carpet
Baby 1 platter lift
Baby 2 platter lift
Capret chairlift
Chisonetto-Banchetta chairlift
Cit Roc chairlift
Combetta platter lift
Garnel 1 chairlift
Garnel 2 chairlift
Jolly platter lift
Jolly DX magic carpet
La Motta 1 platter lift
La Motta 2 platter lift
Nube d'Argento chairlift
Nuova Nube chairlift
Orsiera platter lift
Pattemouche-Anfiteatro cable car
Principi magic carpet
Sises platter lift
Trebials chairlift

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.

66 within 300 m
192 within 1 km
352 places in the valley

The closest one stands 37 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

The snowy Via Lattea slopes above Sestriere on a sunny winter day — photo Smt42 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Sestriere (Via Lattea) worth it?

Sestriere was built in the 1930s as one of Europe's first purpose-built ski resorts -- with two round tower hotels that still stand. In 2006 it held the Alpine events of the Turin Winter Olympics. The village sits very high, on a mountain pass, which is rare for the Alps and gives it reliable snow.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap the Sestriere sector comes to about 81 km of pistes, but the resort is part of the Via Lattea -- the "Milky Way" -- which links it by lift to Sauze d'Oulx, Sansicario and on to Montgenèvre in France. There is more hard terrain here than in the gentle Dolomite resorts; Sestriere has a World Cup slope and steep runs off the ridge.

The height of the village and the runs means cold snow and a long season, but also wind on the open, treeless slopes. The season usually runs from December to April.

The price we give is a six-day adult ticket for the whole Via Lattea -- €294.50 from the online high-season rate list (checked 13 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland is, per OpenStreetMap, about 1,386 km from Wrocław, 1,474 from Katowice and 1,550 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.

Sauze D'Oulx Italy 5 km away · 146 km of piste
Pragelato Italy 5 km away · 20 km of piste
Sansicario Italy 5 km away · 69 km of piste
Claviere Italy 11 km away · 102 km of piste
Montgenèvre Italy 14 km away · 179 km of piste
Prali Italy 16 km away · 12 km of piste
Chiomonte Frais Italy 18 km away · 9 km of piste
Abriès France 18 km away · 26 km of piste

Compare Sestriere (Via Lattea) with its neighbours: Sestriere (Via Lattea) vs Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) · Sestriere (Via Lattea) vs Serre Chevalier · Sestriere (Via Lattea) vs Val Cenis · Sestriere (Via Lattea) vs Risoul-Vars (Forêt Blanche)

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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.