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Typical snowfall
282cm
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
1,037–1,544 m
Across
3.5 km
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.
Mont Saxonnex, in France, runs from 1,037 m at the base to 1,544 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.5 km across, with 11 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 282 cm of snowfall a season, 561st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 80th in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (485 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (203 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 85 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
282cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
203cm
The middle winter of the 12: 270 cm. The best: 485 cm.
World rank
561
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
80
of 244 in France
Elevation rank
154
Highest to lowest, of 244 in France. The centre point sits at 1,393 m, 144 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.
The most snow falls in January. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall.
76cmDec
85cmJan
60cmFeb
62cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 282 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 203 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 485 cm (2.4 times as much).
Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.