🇫🇷 France

Pralognan-la-Vanoise

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Pralognan-la-Vanoise is a ski area in France. It sits at about 1,890 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 4.4 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 370 cm of snowfall a season, 245th (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 Turin, about 81 km away. 214 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

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Snow 48h
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Temperature
13.5℃
Max wind
12km/h
Elevation
1,890m
Area
4.4km²

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 9.6 / 18.6 12
☁️ 28 Sept 0 10.9 / 19.3 8.8
☁️ 29 Sept 0 10.5 / 19.4 11.6
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 10.6 / 15.4 8
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 9.2 / 11.3 5.1
🌧️ 2 Oct 0 9.1 / 13.4 8.7
🌤️ 3 Oct 0 6.3 / 15 9.8

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
41
Run length
25km
Lifts
12
Vertical
930m
Top 2,336 m · base 1,406 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.5 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 6%
East 9%
South 23%
West 62%

Only 15% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 19
Easy 6
Intermediate 11
Advanced 5

Lift types

  • Drag lift7
  • Chairlift4
  • Cable car1

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

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.

Seasonal snowfall
370 cm
per season
Range over three winters
56 cm
342–398 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
245
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
32
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
60
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 1,890 m, 349 m above 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
Domaine Nordique - Vallon de Champagny le Haut7.9 km371 cm244
Courchevel8.5 km370 cm245
Les 3 Vallées13 km356 cm274
La Plagne14 km376 cm222
Aussois15 km351 cm291

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 93 cm, more than the median of 58 cm.

107cm
Dec
116cm
Jan
79cm
Feb
93cm
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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