Espace Liberté is a ski area in France. The terrain spans roughly 1555–1555 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 15 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 334 cm of snowfall a season, 349th (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 33 km away. 271 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌤️ 27 Sept | 0 | 10.1 / 21.1 | 11.7 |
| ☁️ 28 Sept | 0 | 12 / 21.1 | 10.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.6 / 18.9 | 6.6 |
| 🌧️ 30 Sept | 0 | 13.1 / 15.9 | 5.7 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.5 / 14.2 | 4.7 |
| 🌫️ 2 Oct | 0 | 8.8 / 14.3 | 6.6 |
| ⛈️ 3 Oct | 0 | 7.8 / 15.6 | 6.5 |
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 “Espace Liberté”, which the map draws as one ski area.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
65% 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
- Chairlift18
- Platter15
- Drag lift12
- Magic carpet4
- T-bar2
- Gondola2
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Espace Liberté | 0.0 km | 334 cm | 349 |
| La Chapelle d'Abondance | 4.1 km | 206 cm | 1025 |
| Champéry – Les Crosets – Champoussin – Morgins | 6.3 km | 343 cm | 318 |
| Champéry – Les Crosets – Champoussin – Morgins | 6.3 km | 343 cm | 318 |
| L’Essert – Abondance | 8.9 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 81% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 85 cm, more than the median of 58 cm.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28