Hi Roy
So to answer to your rep comment and elaborate a bit about snow and wintertime in Portugal:
The thing about the ski resort in the Estrela Mountains is that it is situated in Torre, the highest point in mainland Portugal at nearly 2000m, which is a sort of plateau, so the tracks are not very steep.
It can get a lot of snow tough:
Photos from May 1996
http://webx.ubi.pt/~acpombo/tortosendo/serra_1.htm
February 2014
In the old days the mountain had some remnants of snow even in the summer, and nowadays in some cooler summers as well sometimes, but not as common:
July 2014
But it can also happen that after the snow falls rain can come and melt it a bit. And it can vary quite a bit from year to year; I've been there one time in early November with a truckload of snow, but in some Decembers there can be little snow. Still, though every year it snows in many other places in Portugal, the Estrela Mountains in the most reliable one to see snow at almost all times during the cold season and have a long lasting snow cover.
If you ever want to visit, Vale do Rossim Camping is one of the favourite camping spots for me and my friends, it also has some bungallows and yurts that are really cosy in the wintertime:
There is also a really cool place called Natura Glamping in the Gardunha Mountains, with a view to Estrela:
Other good places to see snow in Portugal (again, even though most of these places get snow every year, it's may not be as frequent and long lasting as in Estrela):
North
Lamas de Mouro (also has a very good camping park and bungalows)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@42.03...604?authuser=0
Montalegre
Pitões das Júnias
Marão Mountains and Vila Real city
Bragança city
Centre (besides Estrela)
Caramulo Mountains
Montemuro Mointains
Guarda city
Lousã Mountains (close to my city, where my photo is):
South
São Mamede Mountains
Madeira Island Mountains (best drone footage I've ever seen
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Mount Pico - Azores
That being said, mailand Portugal in winter is more about either dry weather with cold, possibly frosty mornings and sunny afternoons, or rainy weather with colder days but milder nights. Lisbon is one of the mildest places in continental Portugal due to the urban heat island it creates, but it has still gone bellow zero on some rare occasions; but if you travel a few kilometers inland, to towns like Coruche, it can be much colder, having reached about -9ºC a few years ago. Even Sagres, the Southwestern tip of the mailand, gets an average of one frost per winter according to IPMA (the national meteorological institute). Here in Coimbra, I've recorded -7ºC in my thermometer last winter (
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ra#post7066432), and some few snow flakes may fall for a short time but rarely accumulate, once every 4 years or so, the last big accumulation was in 1983, but 15 minutes away by car, in the village of Roxo, at 500m altitude, it accumulates more often.
Hope you liked the pics and info
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