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Montgenèvre

traditionalfamily-friendlysunny
Weeks 6–9

Typically -6.6°C · 19cm fresh / week · powder day 43% · mixed 48%

Top elev.
2700m
Base elev.
1860m
Pistes
400km
Lifts
70
Piste mix63km mapped
Green21%
Blue41%
Red26%
Black10%
Other2%
COMPOSITE SCORE
68
Snow87
Typically 127cm
Typical depth127cm
96cm159cm
Travel45
From your origin
Size94
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 6–9

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2099m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -6.6°C, with 19cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 43% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
2.6 days/week
spring-like in 34% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
5.4 m/s
peaks to 15 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1262 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
43%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
33%
of years
Bluebird
19%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
48%
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
127cm
Temperature
-6.6°C
Fresh snow
19cm
Snow line
1262m
Wind
5.4 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Montgenèvre's typical base has sat near 71cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 97cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 45m a decade.

71cm
79cm
79cm
63cm
67cm
68cm
76cm
57cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
30–127cm

Across single winters (1988–89 to 1976–77).

Typical base
−14cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Hautes-Alpes region moved −13cm.

Freezing level
+45m

Per decade. 1268m in 1950–1959, 1630m now. Still 230m 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)126 min
Grenoble (GNB)161 min
Geneva (GVA)194 min
Turin (TRN)99 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.

  • MONTGENEVRE_NIVOmeteofrance
  • SERRE CHE-CHANTEMERLE_NIVOmeteofrance