🇫🇷 France · Haute-Savoie

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

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Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is a ski area in Haute-Savoie, France. It runs from 1035 m at the base to 3842 m at the summit. Within 1.5 km of the centre, the map shows 14 marked runs and 8 lifts, totalling about 3.4 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 259 cm of snowfall a season, 669th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 272 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
13.8℃
Max wind
6.8km/h
Elevation
1035–3842m

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 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 11.8 / 16.6 8
☁️ 28 Sept 0 10.9 / 17 6.5
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 9.8 / 14.3 11.2
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 8.6 / 10.8 11.7
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 7.6 / 9 10.2
⛈️ 2 Oct 0 7.3 / 13.4 7.1
⛈️ 3 Oct 0 7.2 / 14.1 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

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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
259 cm
per season
Range over three winters
59 cm
233–292 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
669
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
107
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
42
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 2,000 m, 459 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
Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix)2.9 km394 cm174
Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)4.6 km474 cm87
Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)4.6 km474 cm87
Le Tourchet (Chamonix)6.3 km290 cm532
Les Chosalets (Chamonix)7.0 km259 cm669

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 78 cm, more than the median of 58 cm.

82cm
Dec
104cm
Jan
75cm
Feb
78cm
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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