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Sauze d'Oulx

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Weeks 7–10

Typically -6.2°C · 24cm fresh / week · powder day 43% · mixed 51%

Top elev.
2823m
Base elev.
1510m
Pistes
400km
Lifts
70
Piste mix57km mapped
Green1%
Blue23%
Red69%
Black6%
Other1%
COMPOSITE SCORE
67
Snow80
Typically 118cm
Typical depth118cm
92cm155cm
Travel53
From your origin
Size94
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 7–10

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2052m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -6.2°C, with 24cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 43% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
2.8 days/week
spring-like in 37% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
1.8 m/s
peaks to 3 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1216 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
43%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.8 days
per week
Storm
31%
of years
Bluebird
18%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
51%
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
118cm
Temperature
-6.2°C
Fresh snow
24cm
Snow line
1216m
Wind
1.8 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Sauze d'Oulx's typical base has sat near 95cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 132cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 50m a decade.

98cm
104cm
112cm
84cm
86cm
92cm
100cm
77cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
39–171cm

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

Typical base
−21cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Other Italian Alps region moved −21cm.

Freezing level
+50m

Per decade. 1092m in 1950–1959, 1513m now.

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)111 min
Grenoble (GNB)158 min
Geneva (GVA)180 min
Turin (TRN)84 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.