Cerdanya and Alt Urgell Experience Historic Snow Season with Record Accumulations

Ski resorts in the Eastern Pyrenees see the highest snow levels in a decade, securing water reserves for spring.

Snowy high mountain landscape in the Pyrenees with a meteorological measurement station.
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Snowy high mountain landscape in the Pyrenees with a meteorological measurement station.

The regions of Cerdanya and Alt Urgell have recorded exceptional snow depths during the 2025-2026 season, reaching levels not seen in the Pyrenees for more than a decade.

The winter campaign in the Eastern Pyrenees has produced surprising data. La Molina station recorded a snow depth of 61.9 cm on January 26, a figure that contrasts sharply with the 8.8 cm average recorded between 2020 and 2024. This trend has been mirrored in Masella.
In Cerdanya, the Cadí Nord measuring station at Prat d'Aguiló reached 172 cm of accumulated snow on January 20. While the historical maximum remains at 234 cm from 2018, current figures place this season among the most abundant of the last decade.

"This year the snow has been abundant at high altitudes, with thicknesses exceeding one meter at altitudes around 2,000 m."

Aleix Serra · Head of Data Control and Quality at Meteocat
This abundance of snow directly impacts water reserves. According to the Catalan Water Agency (ACA), it is estimated that nearly 230 hm3 of water has accumulated as snow in the Eastern Pyrenees, which will fill reservoirs during the spring thaw.