France

Domaine Les Monts d'Olmes

Off season

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

Typical snowfall
215cm

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
1,405–1,947 m
Across
2.5 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.

Domaine Les Monts d'Olmes, in France, runs from 1,405 m at the base to 1,947 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 29 marked runs and 12 lifts (about 16 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 215 cm of snowfall a season, 995th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 129th in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (400 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (116 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 73 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
215cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
116cm
The middle winter of the 12: 215 cm. The best: 400 cm.
World rank
995
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
129
of 244 in France
Elevation rank
107
Highest to lowest, of 244 in France. The centre point sits at 1,606 m, 69 m above 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
Station de Beille14.0 km267 cm633
Camurac16.0 km275 cm593
Ax 3 Domaines18.0 km283 cm554
Goulier22.0 km287 cm534
Ascou22.0 km248 cm748

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
29
Run length
16km
Lifts
12
Vertical
541m
Top 1,947 m · base 1,405 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map1.7 km
Steepest pitch35°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 78%
East 16%
South 1%
West 4%

94% 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 6 · 2.4 km
Easy 4 · 3.1 km
Intermediate 13 · 9.2 km
Advanced 2 · 0.8 km
Other 4 · 0.4 km

Lift types

  • Platter8
  • Rope tow2
  • J-bar1
  • Chairlift1

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 63% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in France (77%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 46 cm, less than the median of 55 cm.

51cm
Dec
73cm
Jan
46cm
Feb
46cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 215 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 116 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 400 cm (3.4 times as much). For 26% of the 244 ski areas in France the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

214
116
268
400
220
167
215
237
125
150
181
289
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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