🇫🇷 France

Champéry – Les Crosets – Champoussin – Morgins

10 / 100 Powder Score

Champéry – Les Crosets – Champoussin – Morgins is a ski area in France. The terrain spans roughly 1854–1854 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 13 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 343 cm of snowfall a season, 318th (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 Lausanne, about 39 km away. 277 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

14.3℃

Max wind

11.2km/h

Elevation (est.)

1854–1854m

Area

13km²

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	Temp	Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept	11.4 / 18.4	12.7
🌧️ 28 Sept	12 / 18.9	5.8
🌧️ 29 Sept	11.4 / 17.2	6.9
🌧️ 30 Sept	11.7 / 14.6	6.9
🌧️ 1 Oct	8.5 / 12.3	5.6
🌧️ 2 Oct	7.7 / 13.5	5.2
⛈️ 3 Oct	8.1 / 15.1	7.7

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 “Champéry – Les Crosets – Champoussin – Morgins”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs

135

Run length

83km

Lifts

Vertical

1,085m

Top 2,145 m · base 1,060 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedExpert Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map6.7 km

Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 21%

East 45%

South 24%

West 10%

66% 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

Easy 98

Intermediate 28

Advanced 8

Expert 1

Lift types

Chairlift12
Platter10
T-bar4
Rope tow3
Gondola1
Cable car1
Drag lift1

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.

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

343 cm

per season

Range over three winters

105 cm

300–405 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.

World rank

318

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 250 in France

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 1,854 m, 313 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Champéry – Les Crosets – Champoussin – Morgins	0.0 km	343 cm	318
Avoriaz	6.0 km	206 cm	1025
Avoriaz	6.0 km	206 cm	1025
Espace Liberté	6.3 km	334 cm	349
Espace Liberté	6.3 km	334 cm	349

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 82 cm, more than the median of 58 cm.

98cm

Dec

104cm

Jan

78cm

Feb

82cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters