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Valloire

family-friendlytraditionalExpert terrainLearner-friendly
Weeks 1–4

Typically -6.9°C · 26cm fresh / week · powder day 54% · mixed 44%

Top elev.
2600m
Base elev.
1430m
Pistes
150km
Lifts
33
Piste mix131km mapped
Green16%
Blue44%
Red31%
Black8%
COMPOSITE SCORE
68
Snow85
Typically 131cm
Typical depth131cm
107cm168cm
Travel54
From your origin
Size78
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 ~2103m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -6.9°C, with 26cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 54% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
1.1 days/week
spring-like in 11% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
7.2 m/s
peaks to 31 m/s
Typical Freezing level
945 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
54%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.2 days
per week
Storm
40%
of years
Bluebird
16%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
44%
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
131cm
Temperature
-6.9°C
Fresh snow
26cm
Snow line
946m
Wind
7.2 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Valloire's typical base has sat near 83cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 95cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 42m a decade.

81cm
92cm
89cm
84cm
83cm
78cm
84cm
72cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
35–130cm

Across single winters (1953–54 to 1965–66).

Typical base
−8cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Maurienne region moved −6cm.

Freezing level
+42m

Per decade. 1284m in 1950–1959, 1642m 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)83 min
Grenoble (GNB)129 min
Geneva (GVA)151 min
Lyon (LYS)130 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.

  • Valloiremeteofrance
  • Valmeiniermeteofrance