No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
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 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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Pierrefontaine Les Varans is a ski area in France, at about 754 m. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 106 cm of snowfall a season, 2,301st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 232nd in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (177 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (48 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 38 cm.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goule | 19.0 km | 134 cm | 1892 |
| La Combe Saint-Pierre | 21.0 km | 165 cm | 1470 |
| Site du Meix Musy | 22.0 km | 165 cm | 1470 |
| Site du Meix Musy | 22.0 km | 165 cm | 1470 |
| Chapeau-Râblé - La Chaux-de-Fonds | 22.0 km | 165 cm | 1470 |
The most snow falls in January. March brings 55% 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 21 cm, less than the median of 55 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 106 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 48 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 177 cm (3.7 times as much). For 26% of the 244 ski areas in France the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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