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Châtel

FR·Haute-Savoie◇Part of Portes du Soleil· 580kmless snow sure
family-friendlytraditionalLearner-friendly
Weeks 5–8

Typically -4.5°C · 27cm fresh / week · powder day 48% · mixed 54%

Top elev.
2200m
Base elev.
1200m
Pistes
600km
Lifts
196
Piste mix370km mapped
Green9%
Blue52%
Red31%
Black6%
Other2%
Châtel
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COMPOSITE SCORE
58
Snow61
Typically 93cm
Typical depth93cm
67cm117cm
Travel41
From your origin
Size100
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 5–8

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1346m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -4.5°C, with 27cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 48% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
4.7 days/week
spring-like in 72% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
7.4 m/s
peaks to 97 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1008 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
48%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
1.3 days
per week
Storm
30%
of years
Bluebird
15%
of years
Thaw
1%
of years
Mixed
54%
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+
82%
Depth
93cm
Temperature
-4.5°C
Fresh snow
27cm
Snow line
1008m
Wind
7.4 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Châtel's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 6cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 50m a decade.

103cm
122cm
120cm
110cm
95cm
88cm
97cm
64cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
12–206cm

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

Typical base
−39cm

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

Freezing level
+50m

Per decade. 1031m in 1950–1959, 1390m 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
Bern (BRN)110 min
Chambéry (CMF)133 min
Geneva (GVA)107 min
Lyon (LYS)178 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.

  • CHATEL NIVOmeteofrance
  • Avoriazmeteofrance