Passo Tonale
Slope Breakdown
Passo Tonale at a glance
Passo Tonale is a ski resort in Italy, part of the Passo Tonale area. It offers 100 km of slopes served by 29 lifts, with skiing between 1,884 m and 3,016 m (1,132 m vertical). That makes it the 20th largest of the 30 ski resorts in Italy listed on Intski. The season usually runs from December to April. Passo Tonale is an intermediate's mountain: roughly 60% of the slopes are red runs.
Top features of this resort
Snow forecast
About 5 cm of new snow at the top (3,016 m) in the next 3 days, 1 cm at the base.
New snow and temperature at the top station. Estimated by Intski from the MET Norway forecast, updated every few hours. Where it snows most this week
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An alert when 15 cm or more is on the way at Passo Tonale, and a heads-up before it opens.
Getting there & lift pass
Nearest airport
Bolzano (BZO) — about 62 km from the resort, straight-line distance, allow more by road.
Lift pass
Adult day pass around 70 EUR (2026/27 season). Pontedilegno-Tonale day pass, high season rate.
2025/26: 68 EUR (+2.9%)
About €0.70 per km of piste the pass covers (100 km).
Compare lift pass prices at all resortsPrice source, checked 2026-09-14
Driving to Passo Tonale
Rules for a car in Italy, checked 30 September 2026 against official sources.
Road charge
Motorway tolls by distance
Winter tyres
Winter tyres or chains on board, 15 Nov to 15 Apr, on signed roads (Valle d'Aosta from 15 Oct)
Studded tyres
Unclear: allowed up to 3.5 t; the period is not confirmed on an official page
Passo Tonale resort facts
Difficulty shares from skiresort.info, applied to the area total.
About Passo Tonale
Passo Tonale is not a village that happens to have skiing. It is a high road pass, 1,883 m above sea level, crossing the Rhaetian Alps between Lombardy and Trentino and connecting the Valcamonica with the Val di Sole.
Resort Highlights
Skiing on a pass between Lombardy and Trentino
Passo Tonale is not a village that happens to have skiing. It is a high road pass, 1,883 m above sea level, crossing the Rhaetian Alps between Lombardy and Trentino and connecting the Valcamonica with the Val di Sole. The Ortler Alps close it off to the north and the Adamello range to the south, and the hotels and shops strung along the road exist largely for winter visitors: the land around the pass is given over to skiing and snowboarding, and it is the setting for the Adamello Ski Raid.
The skiing
The base is the pass itself at 1,884 m, and the lifts climb to 3,016 m, which gives a vertical of more than 1,100 m across 100 km of pistes served by 29 lifts. That top height is the number to remember. A resort whose lowest slopes start close to 1,900 m and whose highest lift tops 3,000 m holds its snow far better than most in Italy, and the snow-sure tag in our data follows directly from it. The season is listed as December to April.
No difficulty split is recorded, so treat the 100 km as a measure of scale rather than reading anything into the mix; the 29 lifts work out at roughly one per 3.4 km of piste, a moderate density. Who does it suit? The combination of altitude and a mid-sized lift network makes it a sound choice for early or late-season weeks, when lower resorts are struggling, and for skiers who put reliable cover ahead of the biggest possible lift map. With the Adamello and Ortler groups on either side of the road, the views from the lifts explain the scenic-views flag by themselves.
A front line before it was a ski resort
The Tonale was bitterly contested in the First World War. Italian troops held the western, Lombard side and the forces of the Habsburg Empire the eastern, Trentino side, so for years the pass was an international front line rather than a boundary between two Italian regions. A memorial to the fallen Italian soldiers was erected here during the fascist period. It gives the pass a weight of history that purpose-built resorts do not have.
Practicalities
Bolzano (BZO) is the nearest airport in our data, roughly 62 km away as the crow flies. No official resort website is on record for Passo Tonale.
Frequently asked questions about Passo Tonale
A mountain pass, 1,883 m above sea level, with hotels and shops built along it for winter visitors. It is not a traditional village; the settlement exists because of the pass and the skiing around it.
It crosses the Rhaetian Alps between Lombardy and Trentino, linking the Valcamonica on the Lombard side with the Val di Sole on the Trentino side.
Because of altitude. The base is at 1,884 m, on the pass itself, and the lifts reach 3,016 m, so even the lowest slopes are higher than the top stations of many resorts. Our data tags it as snow-sure for that reason.
The pass was a front line: Italian troops held the western, Lombard side and Habsburg forces the eastern, Trentino side, and it was heavily fought over. A memorial to the fallen Italian soldiers was erected during the fascist period.
The Ortler Alps to the north and the Adamello range to the south. The pass also gives its setting to the Adamello Ski Raid.
Passo Tonale has 100 km of marked slopes: 24 km easy (blue), 60 km intermediate (red), 16 km expert (black), served by 29 ski lifts.
The skiing in Passo Tonale ranges from 1,884 m at the base to 3,016 m at the top — a vertical drop of 1,132 m.
The ski season in Passo Tonale typically runs from December to April. Exact opening dates vary by year and snow conditions.
Passo Tonale is better suited to confident skiers — only around 24% of the slopes are rated easy.
Passo Tonale has 16 km of expert (black) slopes — about 16% of the total.
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