Skiing Sierra Nevada from Manchester
Sierra Nevada sits 2100–3300 m in Spain. Flying via GRX, then a 45 km transfer. About 5.6 hours door to door.
Worth knowing. Southern sun turns the snow heavy by lunchtime.
Pre-season — snow reliability. There is no meaningful snow on the models yet, so resorts are ranked on how snow-sure they are: altitude adjusted for latitude, glacier cover and the size of the ski area. Live scoring resumes automatically once the snow arrives. How we rank
A week, all in
£988
Per person sharing, including travel
Getting there
GRX
About 5.6 hours door to door
Value rank from Manchester
49 of 94
By snow quality against total cost
Snow Value Index
3.91
Snow score per 100 of trip cost
Is it worth it from Manchester?
A week here works out 14% below the median for the 94 resorts we rank from Manchester, and it comes 49th on value.
At 5.6 hours each way this is short enough to be worth doing over a weekend, not just as a full week — which is unusual and is most of the reason to pick it over somewhere further.
For what it is worth, Sierra Nevada is cheapest to reach from Madrid, at about £732 — roughly £255 less than from Manchester.
What the week costs
| 7 nights, mid-range, sharing | £386 |
| 6-day adult lift pass | £214 |
| 6 days ski and boot hire | £97 |
| Return flights and transfer from Manchester | £291 |
| Total per person | £988 |
Piste kilometres, lift counts and prices are indicative and compiled from public sources — they have not yet been checked against the resort's own figures for this season. Costs are planning estimates, not quotes. Spotted one that is wrong? Tell us.
Better value from Manchester
More snow for less money, leaving from the same city. We would rather tell you than sell you the page you happen to be on.
Who sells Sierra Nevada in United Kingdom
- Visit SnowTrex
SnowTrex
Pan-European operator selling accommodation-plus-lift-pass packages across the Alps and Eastern Europe. Multi-language and multi-market, which suits an English site with pan-European traffic.
Told when Sierra Nevada is about to get snow
Snowvantage sends one email a week through the season, plus powder alerts five to seven days out — while there is still something left to book.