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 is about 3.5 km across, corner to corner. The map shows 33 marked runs and 9 lifts inside the ski area, totalling about 19 km of piste. Averaged over the last twelve winters, the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 194 cm of snowfall a season, 1201st (tied) of the 3,069 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. 90 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 7 Oct | 0 | 10.5 / 12 | 18.7 |
| ⛈️ 8 Oct | 0 | 1.1 / 10.1 | 40.2 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 1.1 / 8.6 | 33.7 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | 7.2 / 12.4 | 16.3 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 5.3 / 12.8 | 13.1 |
| ☀️ 12 Oct | 0 | 4.4 / 12.8 | 13.6 |
| ☁️ 13 Oct | 0 | 4.6 / 14.3 | 9.2 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
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
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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gresse en Vercors | 11 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| Font d'Urle Chaud Clapier | 11 km | 180 cm | 1320 |
| Col de l'Arzelier | 22 km | 166 cm | 1457 |
| Villard de Lans - Corrençon | 24 km | 176 cm | 1356 |
| Les Signaraux | 27 km | 135 cm | 1877 |
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 55 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 194 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 124 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 309 cm (2.5 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Guides covering France
- Half of Switzerland's Ski Lifts Drag You Uphill. In Japan, 176 of 184 Ski Areas Have None. Counted across 2,888 ski areas: drag lifts are 51% of Swiss lifts, 50% of French, 75% of Swedish — and 1% of Japanese. For a snowboarder that is the difference between 49% of lifts being comfortable and 99%.
- 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.
- Japan's Largest Ski Area Has 65 km of Runs. France Has One With 971. 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.
Updated: 7 Oct 2026, 00:32