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Courmayeur

IT·Aosta Valley
upscaleiconic-viewtraditionalsunnyBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrain
Weeks 53–3

Typically -10.9°C · 29cm fresh / week · powder day 56% · mixed 39%

Top elev.
2755m
Base elev.
1224m
Pistes
100km
Lifts
18
Piste mix42km mapped
Blue38%
Red51%
Black11%
Other1%
COMPOSITE SCORE
67
Snow91
Typically 138cm
Typical depth138cm
115cm165cm
Travel40
From your origin
Size72
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 ~1855m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -10.9°C, with 29cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 56% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
0.1 days/week
spring-like in 0% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
1.4 m/s
peaks to 3 m/s
Typical Freezing level
309 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
56%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
42%
of years
Bluebird
19%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
39%
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
151cm
Temperature
-10.9°C
Fresh snow
29cm
Snow line
309m
Wind
1.4 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Courmayeur's typical base has sat near 153cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 145cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 39m a decade.

151cm
162cm
162cm
160cm
156cm
138cm
152cm
139cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
83–228cm

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

Typical base
−12cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Aosta Valley region moved −21cm.

Freezing level
+39m

Per decade. 677m in 1950–1959, 977m now. Still 247m below the village.

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)174 min
Chambéry (CMF)119 min
Geneva (GVA)108 min
Turin (TRN)112 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.