Stelvio pass - mid October?

[jenzo]

Your input appreciated

Will Stelvio pass be open mid October? What is the closest airport to fly into?

[Allyc85]

You maybe lucky, you may not! October is a bit of a gamble tbh.

[24630883]

Stelvio closes from Novemeber to May so mid October officially should be open but really depends on the weather conditions.
We cycled there in June flying into Milan Malpensa with Easyjet.

[Logbert]

We went in October a few years back the top was covered in snow only just made it over.

[JC29]

Hi - I live in Switzerland and at that time of year it can be a bit touch and go with the weather - having said that even by December last year we had little snow.

Would suggest flying to Zurich renting a car and doing a few of the other passes on the way down; basically you can loop down to davos, over the fluela pass, over the stelvio (the best bit for me is actually the run through the bottom of the valley to get there on the swiss side)

Would then go via italy to the gotthard, go up to Andermatt, take the furka pass, then head north and there is another pass that takes you back to the main motorway in Zurich

[JC29]

fingers crossed this link works - this would be a damn good drive

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Zurich+Airport,+...

[Kateg28]

It is October and I am currently at the top of the Stelvio. Just woke up in our hotel to be greeted by a blanket of snow but have been watching vehicles coming up from Bormio or Umbrail. They seem to be going quite slow apart from the transit type vans who appear not to have noticed.

There was no snow at all yesterday, but quite cold. Hovering just above zero.

[Allyc85]

I see there is now snow on the Stelvio!