Les Houches (Chamonix) is a ski area in France. The terrain spans roughly 1703–1703 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 5.3 km². Within 1.7 km of the centre, the map shows 58 marked runs and 12 lifts, totalling about 30 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 374 cm of snowfall a season, 226th (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 60 km away. 262 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 | 9.6 / 18.3 | 6.4 |
| ☁️ 28 Sept | 0 | 11.1 / 19 | 8.6 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 9.7 / 16.8 | 7.2 |
| 🌧️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.7 / 13.6 | 4.9 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.1 / 11.3 | 4.7 |
| ⛈️ 2 Oct | 0 | 9 / 14.9 | 6.6 |
| 🌫️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.1 / 16.1 | 10.2 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 1.7 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift7
- Platter2
- Gondola1
- Magic carpet1
- Rope tow1
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Tourchet (Chamonix) | 3.5 km | 290 cm | 532 |
| Passy - Plaine Joux | 7.9 km | 290 cm | 532 |
| Megève/Saint-Gervais | 8.9 km | 374 cm | 226 |
| Chamonix-Mont-Blanc | 9.7 km | 259 cm | 669 |
| Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix) | 11 km | 394 cm | 174 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 80% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 103 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