🇫🇷 France

Bellefontaine

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Bellefontaine is a ski area in France. It sits at about 1,173 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.8 km². Within 1.6 km of the centre, the map shows 7 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 3.6 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 218 cm of snowfall a season, 945th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 173 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
16.1℃
Max wind
11.3km/h
Elevation
1,173m
Area
1.8km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 27 Sept 0 11.4 / 22.4 11.3
☁️ 28 Sept 0 12.2 / 22 8.4
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 12.4 / 20.4 7.1
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 13.2 / 17.3 10.6
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 12.2 / 14.1 7
☁️ 2 Oct 0 10.9 / 17.1 10.6
⛈️ 3 Oct 0 9.6 / 17.6 6

Runs and lifts

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.

Marked runs
6
Run length
3.3km
Lifts
5
Vertical
228m
Top 1,257 m · base 1,029 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.4 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 26%
East 2%
South 1%
West 71%

Only 28% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 1
Easy 4
Intermediate 1

Lift types

  • Platter3
  • Rope tow1
  • Drag lift1

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
218 cm
per season
Range over three winters
102 cm
178–280 cm. The best winter was 1.6x the worst.
World rank
945
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
133
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
206
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 1,173 m, 368 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Morbier - Les Combes (ski nordique)3.2 km218 cm945
Les Gentianes3.8 km108 cm2071
Le Brassus11 km255 cm705
Foncine le Haut11 km113 cm2012
La Trélasse12 km231 cm870

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 70% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 59 cm, about the same as the median of 58 cm.

65cm
Dec
84cm
Jan
57cm
Feb
59cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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