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Resort dossier
Les Houches
FR·Haute-Savoie
Weeks 4–7
Typically -9.8°C · 41cm fresh / week · powder day 63% · mixed 29%
Top elev.
1900m
Base elev.
1000m
Pistes
55km
Lifts
15
Piste mix36km mapped
Green2%
Blue46%
Red39%
Black13%
COMPOSITE SCORE
71
Snow97
Typically 185cm
Typical depth185cm
143cm225cm
Travel55
From your origin
Size63
Linked-area piste-km
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect
What to expect in weeks 4–7
Based on 40 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1101m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically stormy, around -9.8°C, with 41cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 63% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.
Icy mornings
1.5 days/week
spring-like in 18% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
9.0 m/s
peaks to 22 m/s
Typical Freezing level
-65 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
63%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
52%
of years
Bluebird
18%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
29%
of years
Climatology
What a season here looks like
Each track shows the typical range across 40 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.
Reliability60cm+
100%
Depth
185cm
Temperature
-9.8°C
Fresh snow
41cm
Snow line
-65m
Wind
9.0 m/s
Transfers
Transfers
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern (BRN) | 156 min | |
| Chambéry (CMF) | 93 min | |
| Grenoble (GNB) | 141 min | |
| Geneva (GVA) | 81 min |
Method & sources
The composite score weights snow reliability against the historical baseline, pulls in live conditions where available, then adjusts for how much hassle the trip actually is for your group.
- 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
- 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
- 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 35 winters.
- 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
- 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
- 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources
Snow data sources
Ground stations the score is based on.
- LE TOUR BALMEmeteofrance
- CHAMONIX-OBSmeteofrance