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Typical snowfall
133cm
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
1,243 m
Across
1.9 km
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.
Les Gollières is a ski area in Switzerland, at about 1,243 m. Within 0.9 km of its centre the map shows 6 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 2.1 km of piste).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 133 cm of snowfall a season, 1,909th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 262nd in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (210 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (66 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 43 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
133cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
66cm
The middle winter of the 12: 137 cm. The best: 210 cm.
World rank
1909
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
262
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
186
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,243 m, 194 m below 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.
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 0.9 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Marked runs
6
Lifts
2
Mapped length
2.1km
By difficulty
Easy2
Intermediate3
Advanced1
Lift types
T-bar2
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in January. March brings 56% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 24 cm, less than the median of 60 cm.
35cmDec
43cmJan
31cmFeb
24cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 133 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 66 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 210 cm (3.2 times as much). For 47% of the 283 ski areas in Switzerland the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.