Lake Tahoe Snow Report
Snow depth at the nearest USDA NRCS SNOTEL mountain weather station to each resort. Stations post daily readings, and we check for new ones every hour.
Last checked: 6:29 PM PST
- Snow depth
- 3"
- Snow water
- 1.3"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- -1"
Palisades Tahoe SNOTEL · 8,010 ft · ~2 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 0"
- Snow water
- 0.0"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- no change
Truckee #2 SNOTEL · 6,500 ft · ~4 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 0"
- Snow water
- 0.0"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- no change
Fallen Leaf SNOTEL · 6,250 ft · ~6 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 7"
- Snow water
- 2.0"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- -2"
Carson Pass SNOTEL · 8,360 ft · ~3 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 1"
- Snow water
- 0.1"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- no change
Central Sierra Snow Lab SNOTEL · 6,890 ft · ~2 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 5"
- Snow water
- 1.4"
- 24 h depth change
- -1"
- 72 h depth change
- -1"
Mt Rose Ski Area SNOTEL · 8,810 ft · ~5 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 0"
- Snow water
- 0.1"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- no change
Ward Creek #3 SNOTEL · 6,750 ft · ~5 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 5"
- Snow water
- 1.4"
- 24 h depth change
- -1"
- 72 h depth change
- -1"
Mt Rose Ski Area SNOTEL · 8,810 ft · ~1 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 3"
- Snow water
- 0.9"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- -1"
Echo Peak SNOTEL · 7,650 ft · ~3 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
- Snow depth
- 1"
- Snow water
- 0.1"
- 24 h depth change
- no change
- 72 h depth change
- no change
Central Sierra Snow Lab SNOTEL · 6,890 ft · ~1 mi away · Nov 8, 2026
The 10-day outlook
Our homepage has a 10-day Open-Meteo forecast for the Tahoe basin, with daily snowfall totals and temperatures.
What is SNOTEL, and why isn't it the same as resort base depth?
SNOTEL (SNOwpack TELemetry) is a network of over 900 automated mountain weather stations operated by the US Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service. They were built to forecast water supply, so they sit up high where the snowpack builds and melts. That often isn't anywhere near a ski resort's base lodge.
Each station continuously measures snow depth (SNWD), snow water equivalent (SWE), temperature, and precipitation. The data is public domain, free to use without an API key, and it updates daily. Snow water equivalent is how much liquid water is in the snowpack. It helps when depth rounds to zero but SWE is still positive, which happens with thin, dense early-season snow.
Resort base depth is a different measurement: a staff member reads a stake at a specific spot on the mountain, usually the base lodge area, and posts a number meant to describe what's skiable. That number reflects the resort's own snowmaking, any grooming it's done, and the micro-climate of its base area.
Check both. SNOTEL is an instrument reading of the snowpack up high, and it keeps updating. The resort's report tells you what you'll ski on when you get there. The "Today's report" links in the table above go straight to each resort's current conditions.
Source: USDA NRCS Air and Water Database (AWDB), accessed via the public REST API at wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdbRestApi ↗. Public domain, no API key required. We checked the station details on 2026-10-24. This page holds each reading for about an hour before it refreshes.