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Massif des Brasses

12 / 100 Powder Score
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Massif des Brasses is a ski area in France. The terrain spans roughly 1262–1262 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.0 km². Within 3.4 km of the centre, the map shows 47 marked runs and 12 lifts, totalling about 20 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 117 cm of snowfall a season, 1964th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 249 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
16℃
Max wind
8.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
1262–1262m
Area
6.0km²

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 10/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 27 Sept 0 11.5 / 21.3 8.9
☁️ 28 Sept 0 12.9 / 21 9.8
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 12.7 / 19.4 6.5
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 13.5 / 16.7 6.1
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 11.4 / 14.1 5.3
🌫️ 2 Oct 0 10.4 / 15.9 7.9
☁️ 3 Oct 0 8.1 / 17.2 7.7

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.

Marked runs
34
Run length
16km
Lifts
11
Vertical
569m
Top 1,491 m · base 922 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 63%
East 26%
South 8%
West 3%

89% 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 4
Easy 10
Intermediate 14
Advanced 2
Freeride 1
Other 3

Lift types

  • Platter9
  • Chairlift2

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

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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
117 cm
per season
Range over three winters
49 cm
92–141 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
1964
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
209
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
191
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 1,262 m, 279 m below 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
Hirmentaz - Les Habères8.4 km103 cm2146
Praz de Lys Sommand9.0 km229 cm875
Roc d'Enfer12 km264 cm647
Grange des Bois12 km73 cm2536
Mont Saxonnex16 km234 cm853

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in France (77%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 29 cm, less than the median of 58 cm.

39cm
Dec
48cm
Jan
30cm
Feb
29cm
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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