France

Station de ski de Prat Peyrot

Off season

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Typical snowfall
65cm

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
1,286–1,468 m
Across
2.0 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 de Prat Peyrot, in France, runs from 1,286 m at the base to 1,468 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.0 km across, with 33 marked runs and 12 lifts (about 9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 65 cm of snowfall a season, 2,704th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 242nd in France. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (202 cm), brought more than 11 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (17 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 23 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
65cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
17cm
The middle winter of the 12: 51 cm. The best: 202 cm.
World rank
2704
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
242
of 244 in France
Elevation rank
163
Highest to lowest, of 244 in France. The centre point sits at 1,363 m, 174 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.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Station de ski Bleymard Mont Lozère40.0 km135 cm1877

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
33
Run length
9km
Lifts
12
Vertical
182m
Top 1,468 m · base 1,286 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 38%
East 33%
South 7%
West 22%

71% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 7 · 2.5 km
Easy 5 · 3.6 km
Intermediate 4 · 2.5 km
Other 17 · 0.4 km

Lift types

  • Platter12

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 70% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in France (77%). In amount, March brings 16 cm, less than the median of 55 cm.

11cm
Dec
23cm
Jan
15cm
Feb
16cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 65 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 17 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 202 cm (11.9 times as much). For 26% of the 244 ski areas in France the leanest winter was 2016/17; here it was a different one.

17
24
50
202
49
33
59
98
47
87
51
68
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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