Webcam Valmalenco
Valmalenco (2,000 m), (local time): 7 °C, showers, feels like 6 °C, wind 3 km/h SW, humidity 94%. Source: Open-Meteo, at the camera's altitude.
The Valmalenco webcam looks at Lago Palù from Alpe Palù, at about 2,000 metres, with the hut on the opposite shore. For snow up high.
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What can you see from the Valmalenco webcam?
Lago Palù, at over 1,900 metres, seen from above at Alpe Palù, with the Rifugio Lago Palù on the opposite shore. Use it for snow and visibility up high, above Chiesa in Valmalenco.
Is there snow in Valmalenco now?
Reading of 8 October 2026 at 14:06 (local time): it is not snowing and no snow is forecast for the next 24 hours. Snow on the ground is not measured: the picture shows it. At Alpe Palù, at about 2,000 metres, snow usually lasts from December until spring; in Chiesa in Valmalenco, at about 960 metres, much less. The webcam shows the situation up high, with the time of the snapshot.
Where do you ski in Valmalenco?
At Alpe Palù, above Chiesa in Valmalenco: the Snow Eagle cable car climbs from the village to about 2,000 metres, and the lifts start from there.
What is pietra ollare?
Soapstone: a green stone, soft and fire-resistant, which in Valmalenco has been quarried and turned on the lathe for centuries to make lavécc, pots for slow cooking.
How do you get to Valmalenco?
From Sondrio, climbing the Mallero valley to Chiesa in Valmalenco; the train goes as far as Sondrio, and from there scheduled buses run. You reach Alpe Palù by cable car from Chiesa.
Discover Valmalenco
Valmalenco begins just above Sondrio and climbs north along the Mallero, towards Piz Bernina, the easternmost four-thousander in the Alps. Chiesa in Valmalenco sits where the Lanterna stream flows into the Mallero; Alpe Palù, with the camera at about 2,000 metres, is a thousand metres higher up.
Lago Palù is one of the largest lakes in the valley: stretched from north to south, on a plateau ringed by pine woods, south of the Sasso Nero. From the top station of the cable car it is half an hour on foot, from Barchi three quarters of an hour. The hut on the shore is a stage stop on the Alta Via della Valmalenco, a loop of about 110 kilometres in eight stages, laid out between 1975 and 1976 across the Disgrazia, Bernina and Pizzo Scalino groups.
The valley has always been a way north. The Muretto Pass, at 2,562 metres, today a crossing for walkers, links it to Maloja and the Engadine: in 1512 the troops of the Three Leagues came down from there to occupy Sondrio. The ski lifts arrived in the 1960s, at Chiesa and Caspoggio, and in winter there is cross-country skiing around the lake too. Explore the other Valtellina webcams, Sondrio, Maloja or the map.
Did you know?
The Snow Eagle cable car, which climbs from Chiesa to Alpe Palù, has cabins for 160 people and is presented as the largest cable car in the world. The lake is up to 15 metres deep.