No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
- Elevation
- 1,204–2,749 m
- Across
- 9.7 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 ↗
Courmayeur, in Italy, runs from 1,204 m at the base to 2,749 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 9.7 km across, with 102 marked runs and 24 lifts (about 42 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 327 cm of snowfall a season, 370th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 8th in Italy. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (587 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (231 cm). March still brings 85 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
The nearest city of any size is Geneva, about 77 km away in a straight line.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courmayeur Val Ferret | 6.1 km | 347 cm | 289 |
| Centro Fondo Arpy - Morgex | 9.3 km | 327 cmsame grid cell | 370 |
| Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix) | 9.7 km | 486 cm | 87 |
| La Thuile | 13.0 km | 408 cm | 164 |
| Chamonix-Mont-Blanc | 14.0 km | 338 cm | 315 |
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 “Courmayeur”, which the map draws as one ski area.
Run map
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
71% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift7
- Cable car6
- Magic carpet5
- Gondola3
- Platter3
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 87% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Italy (116%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 85 cm, more than the median of 48 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 327 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 231 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 587 cm (2.5 times as much). For 31% of the 177 ski areas in Italy, the leanest winter was the same 2016/17: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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
More places to look
Guides covering Italy
- How Much Does Snowfall Change From One Winter to the Next? Country by Country Over twelve winters, the typical Japanese ski area's best winter was 2.3 times its worst. In Italy and Chile it was 4.6 times, in New Zealand 4.2. Canada, Finland and Sweden come out steadier than Japan.