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Les Diablerets

CH·Vaud◇Part of Alpes Vaudoises· 225kmless snow sure
traditionalquietpretty-villageBackcountry / off-pisteGlacier skiing
Linked terrain

Villars, Gryon and Les Diablerets link by piste, but Glacier 3000 and Leysin are bus rides. Reaching the glacier from Villars takes about 1h45, so you're advised back on an early-afternoon bus.

Weeks 50–1

Typically -9.1°C · 27cm fresh / week · powder day 51% · mixed 44%

Top elev.
2971m
Base elev.
1163m
Pistes
225km
Lifts
44
Piste mix61km mapped
Green2%
Blue64%
Red32%
Black2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
54
Snow57
Typically 90cm
Typical depth90cm
65cm117cm
Travel42
From your origin
Size76
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 ~1843m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -9.1°C, with 27cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 51% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
1.5 days/week
spring-like in 16% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
20.6 m/s
peaks to 31 m/s
Typical Freezing level
668 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
51%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.2 days
per week
Storm
42%
of years
Bluebird
14%
of years
Thaw
0%
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+
77%
Depth
93cm
Temperature
-9.1°C
Fresh snow
27cm
Snow line
669m
Wind
20.6 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Les Diablerets's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 8cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 45m a decade.

220cm
232cm
237cm
227cm
218cm
196cm
206cm
166cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
87–410cm

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

Typical base
−54cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Other Swiss Alps region moved −29cm.

Freezing level
+45m

Per decade. 959m in 1950–1959, 1344m 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)105 min
Chambéry (CMF)155 min
Geneva (GVA)109 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)244 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.

  • DIA2slf
  • CHA2slf