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Pass Conditions : May 18, 2013

Latest road conditions will be listed below the web-cam views.
Please wait for the page to fully load, it can be slow at times.

Fairly reliable sources of the current **official** status of many passes can be found below.
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All Alps	ÖAMTC (in German) NOTE:"Wintersperre" or "sperre" means "closed"
Switzerland:	Swiss Info scroll down to "PÄSSE". Gesperrt=closed; Schnee=snowcovered; Frei=open. (Swiss Teletext)
France:	(in French) Pass status search by name or Departement (in French) Pass status
Italy:	Passes in the Bormio region: www.bormioonline.com mountain weather: (in Italian)

Some Webcam views:

In the meantime, just in case you were thinking of a quick trip to the Alps at the moment...

here is what the Stelvio looks like at the top:


Andermatt, Switzerland from the Hotel Metropol near the centre:	Grossglockner, Austria:

For a short list of live mountain-based WebCams in the Alps go to my WebCam/Weather links page.

Due to technical problems I have had to close the pass status service below. I will get it back as soon as possible. [Tim 22.06.2011]

Pass Conditions as of May 18, 2013

NOTE: Between mid-October and mid-May, even the passes that say they're open may be open only for cars and you may not be able to get a bike over it, especially if the pass is a high one.
Most passes are generally open by late June.

Many thanks to windrush2 and to Coz of the Fazer Owners Club for providing scripts!

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