No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
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 of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
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.
Espace Liberté de Chaudeyrac is a ski area in France, at about 1,274 m. Its mapped area is about 3.0 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 124 cm of snowfall a season, 2,044th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 221st in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (220 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (63 cm). March still brings 32 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Les Estables | 6.6 km | 125 cm | 2029 |
| Domaine Nordique du Meygal | 9.8 km | 115 cm | 2167 |
| La Croix de Bauzon | 40.0 km | 104 cm | 2329 |
The most snow falls in January. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in France (77%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 32 cm, less than the median of 55 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 124 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 63 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 220 cm (3.5 times as much). For 26% of the 244 ski areas in France the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
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