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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 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 ↗
Flaine is a ski area in France, on slopes between roughly 1,652 and 1,652 m. Within 1.8 km of its centre the map shows 125 marked runs and 19 lifts (about 84 km of piste).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 338 cm of snowfall a season, 315th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 49th in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (565 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (212 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 104 cm.
The nearest city of any size is Geneva, about 49 km away in a straight line.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Grand Massif | 3.5 km | 416 cm | 151 |
| Villages | 5.3 km | 338 cmsame grid cell | 315 |
| Passy - Plaine Joux | 6.6 km | 365 cm | 239 |
| Romme | 9.9 km | 214 cm | 1008 |
| Le Reposoir | 13.0 km | 214 cm | 1008 |
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 1.8 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 78 cm, more than the median of 55 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 338 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 212 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 565 cm (2.7 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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