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Avoriaz

FR·Haute-SavoiePart of Portes du Soleil· 580kmless snow sure
family-friendlycar-freelivelymodernLearner-friendly
Weeks 9–12

Typically -0.1°C · 22cm fresh / week · powder day 43% · mixed 36%

Top elev.
2466m
Base elev.
1100m
Pistes
600km
Lifts
196
Piste mix370km mapped
Green9%
Blue52%
Red31%
Black6%
Other2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
57
Snow56
Typically 128cm
Typical depth128cm
104cm158cm
Travel50
From your origin
Size100
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 9–12

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1970m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -0.1°C, with 22cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 43% of the time. Other weeks run stormy or warm and wet.

Icy mornings
5.1 days/week
spring-like in 78% of years
Snow texture
Heavy / wet
spring snow, sticky and slow
Typical wind
5.7 m/s
peaks to 20 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1772 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
43%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
4.1 days
per week
Storm
29%
of years
Bluebird
7%
of years
Thaw
28%
of years
Mixed
36%
of years
Climatology

What a season here looks like

Each track shows the typical range across 29 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.

Reliability60cm+
99%
Depth
128cm
Temperature
-0.1°C
Fresh snow
22cm
Snow line
1772m
Wind
5.7 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Avoriaz's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 5cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 48m a decade.

129cm
144cm
147cm
135cm
127cm
118cm
124cm
97cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
35–253cm

Across single winters (1963–64 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−32cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Haute-Savoie region moved −21cm.

Freezing level
+48m

Per decade. 1320m in 1950–1959, 1680m now.

Calibrated reanalysis, 1950–2025. Bars are each winter's mean base, rules each decade's mean. 2020–2025 holds 6 winters, not ten. Every figure here averages a full season, so none of them will match the readings for your chosen weeks above.

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Transfers

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Method & sources

We weigh snow reliability against this resort's own history, add live conditions where we have them, then adjust for how hard the trip is for your group.

  1. 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
  2. 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
  3. 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 30 winters.
  4. 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
  5. 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
  6. 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources

Snow data sources

Ground stations the score is based on.

  • Avoriazmeteofrance
  • CHATEL NIVOmeteofrance