Webcam Forcola Pass
The barrier at the Forcola Pass, at 2,315 m between Livigno and Valposchiavo: the webcam shows snow and visibility at the top before you cross.
Straight-line distances from Forcola Pass
This webcam, in brief
How the camera works and what to expect from the images.
Is the Forcola Pass open?
The Forcola closes every winter. The Canton of Graubünden sets a minimum closure of six months, from the last Friday of November to the first week of June; with a lot of snow the reopening slips. The webcam shows the pass, but the official opening should be checked on the channels of the Canton and of the Municipality of Livigno.
What can you see from the Forcola webcam?
The barrier at the pass, at 2,315 metres on the border between Livigno and Valposchiavo, with the road and the slopes around it. Use it to check snow and visibility before you cross.
Where does the Forcola Pass lead?
From Livigno to Swiss Valposchiavo: after the pass the road descends to meet the Bernina road, from which you climb to St. Moritz or go down to Poschiavo and Tirano. It is a border crossing with customs.
How long is the Forcola road?
About 18 kilometres with a maximum gradient of 12 per cent. The Livigno side has no hairpins, with long straights broken by short level stretches.
Is there snow on the Forcola Pass now?
8 October 2026: no snow reading is available at the moment. At 2,315 metres snow usually stays from November to May, and that is why the road closes. Look at the webcam: the time of the snapshot is always shown.
Discover Forcola Pass
The Forcola di Livigno is a pass the wrong way round. At 2,315 metres it links a valley north of the Alpine watershed that is Italian, the Livigno valley, with a valley to the south that is Swiss, Valposchiavo. On one side the water runs down to the Spöl, the Inn and the Danube; on the other to the Poschiavino, the Adda and the Po.
The Spöl rises right here, in Val Ursera, close to the pass. In Romansh the pass is called Fuorcla da Livign, in the Livigno dialect la Fórcola. From Livigno it is about 12 kilometres of road and 450 metres of ascent; from the La Motta junction, on the Bernina road, under 4 kilometres and 263 metres, and steeper.
In 2010 the Giro d'Italia climbed it from Poschiavo: 18 kilometres at an average of 7 per cent, a first-category climb, before descending to Livigno and carrying on over the Eira and the Foscagno. In May 2005 things went differently: bad weather on the pass forced the organisers to move the start of the stage planned from Livigno down into Valtellina.
When the Forcola is closed, the only way to Switzerland is the Munt la Schera tunnel, at the far end of Lake Livigno. Since September 2016 a decision by the Graubünden government has set the reopening for the first Monday in June and the closure for the last Friday in November, later or earlier if there is a risk of avalanches. See also the Bernina Pass webcam, the Livigno webcams, the Forcola Pass page, the other Valtellina webcams or the map.
Did you know?
The Italian side climbs from Livigno without a single hairpin, in long straights with gradients of up to 12%. The Italian customs post is on the pass itself; the Swiss one is lower down, near the junction with the Bernina road.