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Resort dossier

Val d'Isère

FR·Tarentaise◇Part of Espace Killy / Tignes – Val d'Isère· 300km
livelyBackcountry / off-pisteExpert terrainGlacier skiingIntermediate paradiseLearner-friendly
Weeks 1–4

Typically -8.7°C · 23cm fresh / week · powder day 48% · mixed 47%

Top elev.
3456m
Base elev.
1550m
Pistes
300km
Lifts
78
Piste mix209km mapped
Green11%
Blue44%
Red33%
Black11%
Val d'Isère
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COMPOSITE SCORE
62
Snow86
Typically 149cm
Typical depth149cm
119cm185cm
Travel19
From your origin
Size89
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 1–4

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~2802m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -8.7°C, with 23cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 48% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
0.1 days/week
spring-like in 1% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
5.1 m/s
peaks to 43 m/s
Typical Freezing level
1162 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
48%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.5 days
per week
Storm
34%
of years
Bluebird
19%
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+
100%
Depth
149cm
Temperature
-8.7°C
Fresh snow
23cm
Snow line
1162m
Wind
5.1 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Val d'Isère's typical base has sat near 82cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 87cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 36m a decade.

81cm
87cm
90cm
78cm
83cm
77cm
87cm
69cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
46–133cm

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

Typical base
−12cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Tarentaise region moved −8cm.

Freezing level
+36m

Per decade. 1489m in 1950–1959, 1808m 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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AirportDriveTrain
Chambéry (CMF)145 min
Geneva (GVA)210 min360 min
Lyon (LYS)210 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.

  • Val d Isere Joseraymeteofrance
  • Tignesmeteofrance