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Le Châble

CH·ValaisGondola accessless snow sure
rail-accessibletraditionalBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainIntermediate paradise
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 -10.2°C · 28cm fresh / week · powder day 55% · mixed 44%

Top elev.
3330m
Base elev.
820m
Pistes
410km
Lifts
92
Piste mix170km mapped
Blue36%
Red46%
Black9%
Freeride8%
Other1%
COMPOSITE SCORE
63
Snow80
Typically 132cm
Typical depth132cm
109cm156cm
Travel32
From your origin
Size94
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 ~1693m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -10.2°C, with 28cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 55% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
1.2 days/week
spring-like in 11% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
1.5 m/s
peaks to 2 m/s
Typical Freezing level
511 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
55%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
1.2 days
per week
Storm
39%
of years
Bluebird
17%
of years
Thaw
1%
of years
Mixed
44%
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
-10.2°C
Fresh snow
28cm
Snow line
511m
Wind
1.5 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Le Châble's typical base has sat near 131cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 152cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 45m a decade.

131cm
140cm
140cm
138cm
134cm
118cm
128cm
115cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
66–218cm

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

Typical base
−16cm

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

Freezing level
+45m

Per decade. 968m in 1950–1959, 1333m 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)122 min
Chambéry (CMF)160 min
Geneva (GVA)124 min
Turin (TRN)158 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.