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Station du Col de Rousset

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Station du Col de Rousset is a ski area in France. It sits at about 1,478 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 3.5 km². Within 2.6 km of the centre, the map shows 34 marked runs and 9 lifts, totalling about 16 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 213 cm of snowfall a season, 971st (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 92 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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Next 24h
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Temperature
13.8℃
Max wind
18.5km/h
Elevation
1,478m
Area
3.5km²

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 10.9 / 18.4 18.5
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 12.4 / 17.6 26.9
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 12.4 / 17.8 21.3
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 13.1 / 17 18.5
⛈️ 1 Oct 0 11.7 / 14.8 9.6
🌫️ 2 Oct 0 10.9 / 14 7.8
⛈️ 3 Oct 0 9.7 / 14.2 6.5

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
19km
Lifts
9
Vertical
436m
Top 1,692 m · base 1,256 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 59%
East 5%
South 6%
West 30%

64% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 18
Easy 7
Intermediate 6
Advanced 2

Lift types

  • Drag lift7
  • Chairlift1
  • Magic carpet1

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

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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
213 cm
per season
Range over three winters
87 cm
176–263 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
971
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
137
of 250 in France
Elevation rank
145
Highest to lowest, of 250 in France. The centre point sits at 1,478 m, 63 m below 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
Gresse en Vercors11 km153 cm1541
Font d'Urle Chaud Clapier11 km213 cm971
Col de l'Arzelier22 km160 cm1459
Villard de Lans - Corrençon24 km171 cm1334
Les Signaraux27 km114 cm2003

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in France (77%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 45 cm, less than the median of 58 cm.

52cm
Dec
53cm
Jan
45cm
Feb
45cm
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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