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Resort dossier
Val Cenis
FR·Haute-Mauriennemore snow sure
Weeks 9–12
Typically +0.4°C · 22cm fresh / week · powder day 44% · mixed 31%
Top elev.
2800m
Base elev.
1400m
Pistes
125km
Lifts
23
Piste mix89km mapped
Green25%
Blue42%
Red29%
Black4%
[ Haute-Maurienne ]
46.42°N · 7.37°E
COMPOSITE SCORE
51
Snow57
Typically 139cm
Typical depth139cm
112cm165cm
Travel30
From your origin
Size76
Linked-area piste-km
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect
What to expect in weeks 9–12
Based on 40 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2728m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically warm and wet, around +0.4°C, with 22cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 44% of the time. Other weeks run mixed or stormy.
Icy mornings
3.8 days/week
spring-like in 57% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
3.0 m/s
peaks to 21 m/s
Typical Freezing level
2169 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
44%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
4.3 days
per week
Storm
30%
of years
Bluebird
2%
of years
Thaw
37%
of years
Mixed
31%
of years
Climatology
What a season here looks like
Each track shows the typical range across 40 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.
Reliability60cm+
100%
Depth
139cm
Temperature
+0.4°C
Fresh snow
22cm
Snow line
2169m
Wind
3.0 m/s
Transfers
Transfers
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chambéry (CMF) | 126 min | |
| Grenoble (GNB) | 173 min | |
| Geneva (GVA) | 195 min | |
| Lyon (LYS) | 174 min |
Method & sources
The composite score weights snow reliability against the historical baseline, pulls in live conditions where available, then adjusts for how much hassle the trip actually is for your group.
- 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
- 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
- 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 35 winters.
- 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
- 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
- 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources
Snow data sources
Ground stations the score is based on.
- Val Cenis (La Berche)meteofrance