A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗
| Date | Weather | Snow (cm) | Low / high (°C) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 10 Nov | Showers | 0 | 3 to 8 | 15 |
| Wed 11 Nov | Showers | 0 | 2 to 7 | 16 |
| Thu 12 Nov | Snow | 2 | 0 to 4 | 11 |
| Fri 13 Nov | Cloudy | 0 | 1 to 7 | 9 |
| Sat 14 Nov | Fog | 0 | 0 to 4 | 10 |
| Sun 15 Nov | Rain | 0 | 0 to 3 | 9 |
| Mon 16 Nov | Snow | 13 | −1 to 2 | 17 |
The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure
Aiguilles, in France, runs from 1,449 m at the base to 1,472 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.5 km across, with 7 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 4.2 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 220 cm of snowfall a season, 953rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 123rd in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (418 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2021/22 (104 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (57 and 50 cm on average).
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Only 12% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (74%).
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ristolas en Queyras | 6.0 km | 236 cm | 816 |
| Abriès | 6.0 km | 245 cm | 765 |
| Molines-en-Queyras - Saint-Véran | 7.1 km | 235 cm | 823 |
| Arvieux | 11.0 km | 199 cm | 1158 |
| Ceillac en Queyras | 17.0 km | 218 cm | 973 |
The most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 61 cm, about the same as the median of 55 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 220 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2021/22 with 104 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 418 cm (4.0 times as much). For 26% of the 244 ski areas in France the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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