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Resort dossier

Saas-Fee

CH·Valais
family-friendlycar-freeiconic-viewBackcountry / off-pisteGlacier skiing
Top elev.
3600m
Base elev.
1800m
Pistes
100km
Lifts
22
Piste mix53km mapped
Blue44%
Red46%
Black4%
Freeride6%
COMPOSITE SCORE
22
Snow0
p(60cm+) · selected weeks
Typical depth
no depth data
Travel0
From your origin
Size72
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
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+
Depth
Temperature
Fresh snow
Snow line
Wind
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Saas-Fee's typical base has sat near 107cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 113cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 43m a decade.

108cm
110cm
116cm
107cm
109cm
101cm
109cm
85cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
59–172cm

Across single winters (2022–23 to 1976–77).

Typical base
−23cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Valais region moved −20cm.

Freezing level
+43m

Per decade. 702m in 1950–1959, 1002m now. Still 798m 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
Geneva (GVA)195 min240 min
Zürich (ZRH)210 min240 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.

  • SAA4slf
  • SAA5slf