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Typical snowfall
209cm
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 →
Elevation
1,142–1,197 m
Across
0.4 km
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 ↗
Alvaneu, in Switzerland, runs from 1,142 m at the base to 1,197 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 3 marked runs and 1 lift (about 0.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 209 cm of snowfall a season, 1,066th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 199th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (302 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (133 cm). March still brings 52 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
How much snow it gets
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
209cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
133cm
The middle winter of the 12: 207 cm. The best: 302 cm.
World rank
1066
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
199
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
212
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,151 m, 286 m below the national median.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 91% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%). In amount, March brings 52 cm, about the same as the median of 60 cm.
55cmDec
57cmJan
46cmFeb
52cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 209 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 133 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 302 cm (2.3 times as much).
Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.