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Champagny-en-Vanoise

FR·Tarentaise
traditionalpretty-villagesunnyBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainGlacier skiingLearner-friendly
Weeks 50–1

Typically -4.9°C · 34cm fresh / week · powder day 59% · mixed 41%

Top elev.
3250m
Base elev.
1250m
Pistes
425km
Lifts
142
Piste mix190km mapped
Green1%
Blue62%
Red22%
Black10%
Double-black3%
Freeride1%
Champagny-en-Vanoise
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COMPOSITE SCORE
59
Snow62
Typically 114cm
Typical depth114cm
83cm150cm
Travel51
From your origin
Size95
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 1–53

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2578m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -4.9°C, with 34cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 59% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
0.9 days/week
spring-like in 6% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
2.5 m/s
peaks to 20 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1494 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
59%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
2.8 days
per week
Storm
45%
of years
Bluebird
12%
of years
Thaw
1%
of years
Mixed
41%
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+
92%
Depth
118cm
Temperature
-4.9°C
Fresh snow
34cm
Snow line
1494m
Wind
2.5 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Champagny-en-Vanoise's typical base has sat near 94cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 85cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 40m a decade.

92cm
101cm
101cm
95cm
94cm
85cm
96cm
85cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
51–136cm

Across single winters (1953–54 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−7cm

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

Freezing level
+40m

Per decade. 1662m in 1950–1959, 1997m 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)89 min
Grenoble (GNB)136 min
Geneva (GVA)157 min
Lyon (LYS)137 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.

  • La Plagnemeteofrance
  • Pralognanmeteofrance