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Saas-Fee

CH·Valais
family-friendlycar-freeiconic-viewBackcountry / off-pisteGlacier skiing
Weeks 46–50

Typically -12.6°C · 29cm fresh / week · powder day 52% · mixed 47%

Top elev.
3600m
Base elev.
1800m
Pistes
100km
Lifts
22
Piste mix53km mapped
Blue44%
Red46%
Black4%
Freeride6%
Saas-Fee
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COMPOSITE SCORE
56
Snow85
Typically 95cm
Typical depth95cm
62cm151cm
Travel0
From your origin
Size72
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 46–50

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2405m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -12.6°C, with 29cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 52% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
0.4 days/week
spring-like in 4% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
17.6 m/s
peaks to 33 m/s
Typical Freezing level
760 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
52%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
41%
of years
Bluebird
13%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
47%
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
95cm
Temperature
-12.6°C
Fresh snow
29cm
Snow line
761m
Wind
17.6 m/s
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

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Geneva (GVA)195 min240 min
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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