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Brides-les-Bains

FR·Tarentaise◇Part of Les 3 Vallées· 600kmGondola access
traditionalquietrail-accessibleExpert terrainIntermediate paradiseLearner-friendly
Gateway village

The village sits well below the slopes, linked by one gondola or funicular. Snow at the village tells you little about snow up top. Ride the lift up rather than ski from the door.

Weeks 1–4

Typically -6.6°C · 27cm fresh / week · powder day 58% · mixed 43%

Top elev.
2738m
Base elev.
600m
Pistes
600km
Lifts
156
Piste mix499km mapped
Green14%
Blue48%
Red29%
Black8%
Brides-les-Bains
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COMPOSITE SCORE
66
Snow71
Typically 130cm
Typical depth130cm
100cm154cm
Travel62
From your origin
Size100
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 1–4

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1706m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -6.6°C, with 27cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 58% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
1.5 days/week
spring-like in 16% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
0.8 m/s
peaks to 14 m/s
Typical Freezing level
649 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
58%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
2.1 days
per week
Storm
41%
of years
Bluebird
16%
of years
Thaw
1%
of years
Mixed
43%
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+
100%
Depth
130cm
Temperature
-6.6°C
Fresh snow
27cm
Snow line
650m
Wind
0.8 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Brides-les-Bains's typical base has sat near 62cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 75cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 43m a decade.

60cm
68cm
68cm
64cm
62cm
57cm
62cm
56cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
28–102cm

Across single winters (1953–54 to 1965–66).

Typical base
−4cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Tarentaise region moved −8cm.

Freezing level
+43m

Per decade. 1015m in 1950–1959, 1358m 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

Transfers

AirportDriveTrain
Chambéry (CMF)69 min
Grenoble (GNB)115 min
Geneva (GVA)136 min
Lyon (LYS)116 min
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.

  • Meribel Mottaretmeteofrance
  • Courchevelmeteofrance