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Typical snowfall
135cm
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
1,361–1,570 m
Across
1.8 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.
Station de ski Bleymard Mont Lozère, in France, runs from 1,361 m at the base to 1,570 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.8 km across, with 17 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 8.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 135 cm of snowfall a season, 1,877th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 213th in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (265 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (71 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 43 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
135cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
71cm
The middle winter of the 12: 141 cm. The best: 265 cm.
World rank
1877
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
213
of 244 in France
Elevation rank
142
Highest to lowest, of 244 in France. The centre point sits at 1,464 m, 73 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 79% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 34 cm, less than the median of 55 cm.
27cmDec
43cmJan
31cmFeb
34cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 135 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 71 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 265 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.
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.