No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
- Elevation (est.)
- 1,522–1,522 m
- Across
- 7.6 km
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 ↗
Plateau des Glières is a ski area in France, on slopes between roughly 1,522 and 1,522 m. Its mapped area is about 7.6 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 332 cm of snowfall a season, 345th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 58th in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (625 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (194 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 99 cm.
The nearest city of any size is Geneva, about 32 km away in a straight line. Below are links to its official live camera.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stade de Slalom | 11.0 km | 343 cm | 296 |
| Le Grand Bornand | 11.0 km | 343 cm | 296 |
| La Clusaz | 12.0 km | 326 cm | 378 |
| Snowpark | 12.0 km | 343 cm | 296 |
| Le Reposoir Chalet Neuf | 14.0 km | 343 cm | 296 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 74% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 73 cm, more than the median of 55 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 332 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 194 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 625 cm (3.2 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live cameras
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More places to look
Guides covering France
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. 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.
- How Big Are Japan's Ski Areas? Smaller Than the Alps, Snowier per Kilometre Measured across nearly 1,800 ski areas: the median Japanese one has 12 km of piste against France's 25. What Japan has instead is 25 cm of seasonal snow for every kilometre of run — more than two and a half times France and three times the United States.