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Crans-Montana

CH·Valaisless snow sure
family-friendlysunnyupscaleBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainGlacier skiing
Weeks 1–4

Typically -15.9°C · 30cm fresh / week · powder day 51% · mixed 47%

Top elev.
3000m
Base elev.
1500m
Pistes
140km
Lifts
28
Piste mix73km mapped
Blue20%
Red60%
Black14%
Freeride5%
Crans-Montana
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COMPOSITE SCORE
62
Snow88
Typically 132cm
Typical depth132cm
108cm157cm
Travel19
From your origin
Size77
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 ~1028m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -15.9°C, with 30cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 51% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
1.1 days/week
spring-like in 11% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
17.2 m/s
peaks to 35 m/s
Typical Freezing level
-191 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
51%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
40%
of years
Bluebird
13%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
47%
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
132cm
Temperature
-15.9°C
Fresh snow
30cm
Snow line
-191m
Wind
17.2 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Crans-Montana's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 6cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 47m a decade.

191cm
198cm
202cm
195cm
191cm
169cm
179cm
156cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
88–329cm

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

Typical base
−35cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Valais region moved −20cm.

Freezing level
+47m

Per decade. 257m in 1950–1959, 625m now. Still 875m 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)145 min
Chambéry (CMF)192 min
Geneva (GVA)148 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)196 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.

  • TRU2slf
  • VDS2slf