🇫🇷 France

Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix)

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Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix) is a ski area in France. The terrain spans roughly 1853–1853 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 7.9 km². Within 1.5 km of the centre, the map shows 28 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 21 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 394 cm of snowfall a season, 174th (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. The nearest city of any size is Geneva, about 63 km away. 273 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Temperature
14.5℃
Max wind
11.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
1853–1853m
Area
7.9km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 12.1 / 18.2 11.7
☁️ 28 Sept 0 11.6 / 18.9 11.7
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 10.8 / 15.2 11.2
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 9.6 / 11.8 11.7
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 8.6 / 10 10.2
⛈️ 2 Oct 0 8.3 / 14.4 7.1
⛈️ 3 Oct 0 8.2 / 15.1 9.2

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.

The figures are for the whole of “Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix)”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
65
Run length
41km
Lifts
18
Vertical
1,439m
Top 2,486 m · base 1,047 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map4.1 km
Steepest pitch38°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 9%
East 46%
South 40%
West 5%

55% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 16
Easy 17
Intermediate 19
Advanced 12
Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift8
  • Platter5
  • Gondola2
  • Cable car2
  • Magic carpet1

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
394 cm
per season
Range over three winters
107 cm
358–465 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
174
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
14
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
65
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 1,853 m, 312 m above 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
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc2.9 km259 cm669
Les Chosalets (Chamonix)5.2 km259 cm669
Les Grands Montets6.3 km394 cm174
Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)7.2 km474 cm87
Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)7.2 km474 cm87

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 81% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 101 cm, more than the median of 58 cm.

117cm
Dec
125cm
Jan
90cm
Feb
101cm
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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