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Lee Canyon weather from the National Weather Service for the base area, the scheduled Nov 20 opening, and links to the resort's snow report and live cams.
Updated Nov 1, 2026 · 11 sources
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NWS forecast, Lee Canyon base area
From the National Weather Service Las Vegas office, grid point VEF 104,107.
Issued Wed, Nov 4, 10:52 AM Pacific.
- Today44°FSunny. High near 44, with temperatures falling to around 34 in the afternoon. Northwest wind around 5 mph.
- Tonight28°FMostly clear, with a low around 28. North wind around 3 mph.
- Thursday43°FPartly sunny. High near 43, with temperatures falling to around 35 in the afternoon. North wind 1 to 5 mph.
- Thursday Night28°FPartly cloudy, with a low around 28. North wind 3 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
- Friday43°FSunny, with a high near 43. North wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
- Friday Night28°FMostly clear, with a low around 28.
Full NWS forecast for this point · NWS Las Vegas · Lee Canyon’s own snow report
Lee Canyon is scheduled to open for the 2026/27 season on November 20, 2026, according to the resort; opening day depends on snow.
The forecast above comes straight from the National Weather Service. It’s issued for the grid square that contains the Lee Canyon base area, at 36.3016° N, 115.6808° W. Our server pulls it from NWS at most once an hour and prints the issue time with it, and your browser checks for a newer issue when the page opens. That matters because the forecast you get by searching “Las Vegas weather” describes a desert floor more than a mile lower. On a winter morning the two can be 30 degrees apart, and one of them may have snow in it while the other has none.
What the NWS forecast doesn’t tell you is what the resort has open. For that you need the resort’s own report, and for the drive you need NDOT. Below is where each piece lives and how to read them together.
Three things to check before you leave
1. The forecast (above). Look at tonight and tomorrow, not just today. Wind matters as much as snow: Lee Canyon’s top lift unloads around 9,370 feet, and a forecast with strong gusts can mean lift holds even on a sunny day. If the forecast mentions snow above a certain elevation, compare it to the numbers below.
2. The resort’s snow report. Lee Canyon’s weather page lists which lifts and trails are open, their hours, and links to the resort’s webcams. It is the only place that knows whether a run is groomed or roped off. We don’t copy it here because a copied snow report is out of date within hours.
3. The road. Check NV Roads or call 511 for chain requirements and closures on the way up. The resort’s own directions page warns that there’s no cell service going up the mountain, so check before you leave town and save your directions offline. Our getting to Lee Canyon page explains what Nevada’s chain signs actually require.
Lee Canyon by the numbers
These are the resort’s published figures, from its mountain statistics page, read on the date shown under Sources.
| Base lodge elevation | 8,660 ft |
| Summit | 11,289 ft |
| Average annual snowfall | 129 in |
| Terrain | 445 acres total: 235 lift-served, 210 hike-to |
| Trails | 36 |
| Lifts | Sherwood (triple, 9,310 ft), Bluebird (quad, 9,370 ft), Ponderosa (quad, 8,775 ft), Rabbit Peak (quad, 8,510 ft) |
| Vertical | 860 ft lift-served; 2,779 ft including hike-to routes |
| Snowmaking | 35% of terrain |
The statistics page lists the West Bowl as “NEW for 26/27 season” with “details coming soon,” so don’t count on it for opening day. Its own pages don’t fully agree on the totals: the hours page describes 195 acres, 27 trails and more than 161 inches of average snowfall. We’ve used the statistics page above and will update this table when the West Bowl numbers are out.
Reading the forecast for snow days
A few habits help when you’re deciding whether to drive up:
- Snow that falls overnight is the snow you’ll ride. A forecast for snow on Saturday afternoon helps Sunday more than Saturday, and it makes Saturday’s drive down slower.
- Watch the snow level. NWS forecasts in the Spring Mountains often give an elevation where rain turns to snow. If that number is above 8,660 feet, the base may get rain while the upper lifts get snow.
- A storm also means traffic and chains. The resort’s FAQ says most days the drive is easy, but during the winter holidays (December 20 to January 6) and after it snows, so many people drive up to see the snow that the roads back up. Its advice: buy ahead and arrive as early as you can.
- Spring is warm. By March and April the forecast highs at the base can be well above freezing. Morning corduroy turns to slush by early afternoon, so go early.
Cameras
People search for “Lee Canyon camera” more than almost anything else about the resort. The live mountain cams are run by Lee Canyon and live on its weather page. We link to them instead of embedding them, because they’re the resort’s streams and we don’t have permission to rehost them. For the highway, NDOT’s NV Roads map shows conditions on the routes it reports on, with traffic cameras where NDOT has them.
When does Lee Canyon open for 2026/27?
Lee Canyon lists November 20, 2026 as the start of the 2026/27 ski season on its lift ticket page. Treat that as the plan, not a promise: the resort makes snow on about a third of its terrain, and the rest waits for storms. Demand for “Lee Canyon weather” peaks from December through March, which is also when the crowds are biggest. If you can go midweek, you’ll usually have more room and, with demand-based ticket pricing, often a lower price. See Lee Canyon lift tickets for how that pricing works.
Planning the rest of the day
If you need gear, compare renting at the mountain with picking it up in town the night before on our ski and snowboard rentals for Lee Canyon page. Coming up just to play in the snow? Lee Canyon has no tubing hill, so read snow tubing near Las Vegas before you promise the kids a tube. If the forecast looks thin at Lee Canyon, the ski resorts near Las Vegas list ranks the bigger mountains by drive time. For lifts, terrain and what’s new this season, start at the Lee Canyon guide.
Don’t forget the valley end of the trip. Our sister site temperature.vegas covers Las Vegas weather in December, which it describes as the month with the lowest normal highs and the most freezing nights of the year in town, so you’ll want a warm layer even after you’re back on the Strip.