Switzerland

Crêt-du-Puy

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
144cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
870–1,256 m
Across
1.9 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.

Crêt-du-Puy, in Switzerland, runs from 870 m at the base to 1,256 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 8 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 6.1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 144 cm of snowfall a season, 1,745th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 250th in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (242 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (79 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 47 cm.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
144cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
79cm
The middle winter of the 12: 144 cm. The best: 242 cm.
World rank
1745
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
250
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
243
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,005 m, 432 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Les Bugnenets-Savagnières4.1 km144 cmsame grid cell1745
Les Gollières11.0 km133 cm1909
La Corbatière11.0 km133 cm1909
Les Breuleux11.0 km169 cm1427
Chapeau-Râblé - La Chaux-de-Fonds14.0 km165 cm1470

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
8
Run length
6.1km
Lifts
2
Vertical
386m
Top 1,256 m · base 870 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.5 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 29%
East 0%
South 7%
West 64%

Only 29% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (64%).

By difficulty

Easy 4 · 4.1 km
Intermediate 2 · 0.8 km
Advanced 2 · 1.2 km

Lift types

  • T-bar2

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

The most snow falls in January. March brings 55% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 26 cm, less than the median of 60 cm.

38cm
Dec
47cm
Jan
32cm
Feb
26cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 144 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 79 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 242 cm (3.1 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

143
139
106
242
152
160
215
145
79
84
106
156
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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