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Le Corbier

family-friendlymoderngreat-valueBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainLearner-friendly
Weeks 2–5

Typically -11.9°C · 31cm fresh / week · powder day 57% · mixed 38%

Top elev.
2620m
Base elev.
1550m
Pistes
310km
Lifts
70
Piste mix135km mapped
Green14%
Blue50%
Red26%
Black9%
COMPOSITE SCORE
71
Snow89
Typically 140cm
Typical depth140cm
113cm169cm
Travel58
From your origin
Size90
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 2–5

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1356m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -11.9°C, with 31cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 57% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
1.4 days/week
spring-like in 16% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
2.1 m/s
peaks to 20 m/s
Typical Freezing level
259 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
57%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
43%
of years
Bluebird
18%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
38%
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
140cm
Temperature
-11.9°C
Fresh snow
31cm
Snow line
260m
Wind
2.1 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Le Corbier's typical base has sat near 43cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 51cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 40m a decade.

42cm
48cm
46cm
44cm
43cm
41cm
43cm
38cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
18–69cm

Across single winters (1953–54 to 1965–66).

Typical base
−4cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Maurienne region moved −6cm.

Freezing level
+40m

Per decade. 557m in 1950–1959, 884m now. Still 666m 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
Chambéry (CMF)76 min
Grenoble (GNB)122 min
Geneva (GVA)145 min
Lyon (LYS)123 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.

  • Le Corbiermeteofrance