🇫🇷 France

La Thuile

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La Thuile is a ski area in France. The terrain spans roughly 2399–2399 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 7.0 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 416 cm of snowfall a season, 152nd (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 Geneva, about 84 km away. 257 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
9.8℃
Max wind
10.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
2399–2399m
Area
7.0km²

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

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 5.7 / 16.4 10.7
🌫️ 28 Sept 0 5.2 / 14.7 10.9
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 6.3 / 13.7 13.2
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 6.4 / 8.3 11.4
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 6.1 / 9.3 11
⛈️ 2 Oct 0 6.1 / 11.3 10.3
☁️ 3 Oct 0 4.9 / 11.4 11.4

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 “La Thuile ski”, which the map draws as one ski area.

Marked runs
140
Run length
79km
Lifts
20
Vertical
1,140m
Top 2,608 m · base 1,468 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map5.2 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 36%
East 44%
South 7%
West 13%

80% 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
Easy 60
Intermediate 43
Advanced 22
Expert 1
Freeride 1
Other 7

Lift types

  • Chairlift12
  • Magic carpet4
  • Platter3
  • Gondola1

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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.

Seasonal snowfall
416 cm
per season
Range over three winters
198 cm
329–527 cm. The best winter was 1.6x the worst.
World rank
152
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
8
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
8
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 2,399 m, 858 m above the national median.

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
La Thuile0.0 km416 cm152
La Rosière7.3 km385 cm200
La Rosière7.3 km385 cm200
Centro Fondo Arpy - Morgex8.6 km351 cm291
Sainte-Foy Tarentaise13 km385 cm200

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 95 cm, more than the median of 58 cm.

113cm
Dec
121cm
Jan
80cm
Feb
95cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

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

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