Sugar Bowl snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Central Sierra Snow Lab gauge (6,890 ft) at 1 AM PDT. No change in 24 hours; down 1 inch in 48 hours; down 1 inch in 7 days. This week's deepest: 10 inches, Oct 24, 10:00 AM PDT. Gauge read .
Snow depth from the USDA Central Sierra Snow Lab SNOTEL gauge, 2.3 miles north-west of Sugar Bowl at 6,890 ft, read every hour; Sugar Bowl’s own report read every hour while its season runs.
| On the ground | none |
|---|---|
| Change in 24 hours | no change |
| Change in 48 hours | down 1 in |
| Change in 7 days | down 1 in |
| Deepest in the last 7 days | 10 inches, Oct 24, 10:00 AM PDT |
| Air temperature | 27°F |
Opening-day alerts
A notification on this device on opening day, early in the morning, with a link to the resort’s own report. Pick your resorts:
For Mt. Rose, Sugar Bowl and Diamond Peak it comes the morning their lift page first shows a lift running; for the others, the morning of the opening day they announced, whether or not it holds. It is a heads-up, not the resort’s report: check the resort’s own site for hours and terrain before you go. One alert per resort; no account, no email, and you can turn them off here any time (what we keep).
Sugar Bowl’s own snow report
Sugar Bowl’s own report (sugarbowl.com, last posted Apr 5, 3:57 PM PDT; read ) is not today’s: no lift is open or scheduled on it, so its depth figures are not repeated here. Before opening day and after closing, a resort’s page keeps the last season’s numbers. The gauge above is today’s.
We read Sugar Bowl’s report page on sugarbowl.com once an hour. Its figures appear here only while its season is running, which means a lift open, scheduled or on hold on a read in the last day and a half, and only when the report was posted within the last 30 hours. A resort’s base depth is the packed, groomed snow on its runs, often measured at mid-mountain, so it is rarely the same number as the gauge.
Sugar Bowl opening day: Target Nov 27.Sugar Bowl's opening day is Friday, November 27, as posted on sugarbowl.com.
Chains on the way to Sugar Bowl now
Donner Pass now
No chain controls at Donner Pass (Caltrans). Checked .
Do I need chains on Donner Pass? · Donner Pass webcam · Do I need chains to get to Sugar Bowl from Sacramento?
Snow, next 72 hours at Sugar Bowl: none · How much snow is Sugar Bowl getting: the 72-hour forecast →
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Central Sierra Snow Lab (428:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 2.3 miles north-west of Sugar Bowl at 6,890 ft and reports every hour: snow depth from a sonic sensor over the ground, the water held in the snow from a pressure pillow, and the air temperature. The same gauge serves Boreal, which is nearby.
“New snow” here is how much deeper the snow is than 24 hours, 48 hours and 7 days earlier. Fresh snow settles as it lands and melts on warm afternoons, so a rise is the least that fell, and a fall can mean melt rather than wind. When a storm comes and goes inside the week, the deepest reading of the week is shown with its time. A reading older than six hours is not shown as current: the page says when the gauge last reported instead.
Webcams near Sugar Bowl
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on I-80 at Donner Summit. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on sugarbowl.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
- I-80 at Donner Summit
- I-80 at Donner Lake
- I-80 at Soda Springs - Eastbound
- I-80 at Kingvale - Westbound
Sugar Bowl Resort, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
The road to Sugar Bowl
From Reno, I-80 west past Truckee and over Donner Summit, about 45 miles, to the Soda Springs/Norden exit; then old Highway 40 (Donner Pass Road) east about 3 miles to the Village gondola and the Judah lodge.
Road conditions, chain controls and every camera: I-80.
Snow reports for the other Tahoe resorts
All ten side by side: the Tahoe snow report. One page each: Heavenly · Palisades Tahoe · Northstar · Mt. Rose · Kirkwood · Boreal · Diamond Peak · Sierra-at-Tahoe · Homewood.
- When does Sugar Bowl open? Opening day and lifts
- Sugar Bowl snow forecast for the next 72 hours
- Tahoe ski resort opening dates
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Central Sierra Snow Lab (428:CA:SNTL), public domain, provisional data, read hourly. Resort report: Sugar Bowl’s own site, sugarbowl.com, read hourly; figures as the resort posts them. Chain control: Caltrans and NDOT, read every five minutes. Nevada Explorer is not affiliated with Sugar Bowl Resort.