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Megève

FR·Haute-SavoiePart of Evasion Mont-Blanc· 445kmless snow sure
upscalepretty-villagefamily-friendlyBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainIntermediate paradiseLearner-friendly
Linked terrain

The piste breakdown and terrain figures shown are for the whole linked area. Megève's Rochebrune and Mont d'Arbois sectors link to Saint-Gervais across a valley cable car. Combloux and Le Jaillet need a ski bus, and Les Contamines has no piste link to the rest at all.

Weeks 2–5

Typically -9.0°C · 35cm fresh / week · powder day 62% · mixed 34%

Top elev.
2350m
Base elev.
1113m
Pistes
445km
Lifts
113
Piste mix255km mapped
Green13%
Blue34%
Red36%
Black13%
Freeride3%
COMPOSITE SCORE
70
Snow88
Typically 133cm
Typical depth133cm
99cm158cm
Travel57
From your origin
Size77
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 ~1264m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -9.0°C, with 35cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 62% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
2.7 days/week
spring-like in 34% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
3.5 m/s
peaks to 20 m/s
Typical Freezing level
347 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
62%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
47%
of years
Bluebird
19%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
34%
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
133cm
Temperature
-9.0°C
Fresh snow
35cm
Snow line
347m
Wind
3.5 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Megève's typical base has sat near 107cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 168cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 48m a decade.

106cm
115cm
118cm
112cm
108cm
96cm
103cm
90cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
31–199cm

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

Typical base
−16cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Haute-Savoie region moved −21cm.

Freezing level
+48m

Per decade. 715m in 1950–1959, 1091m now. Still 22m 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)77 min
Grenoble (GNB)123 min
Geneva (GVA)85 min
Lyon (LYS)124 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.

  • LA GIETTAZmeteofrance
  • LES CONTAMINES MONTJOIEmeteofrance