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Villars

CH·Vaud◇Part of Alpes Vaudoises· 225kmless snow sure
family-friendlytraditionalrail-accessibleGlacier skiing
Linked terrain

Villars, Gryon and Les Diablerets link by piste, but Glacier 3000 and Leysin are bus rides. Reaching the glacier from Villars takes about 1h45, so you're advised back on an early-afternoon bus.

Weeks 4–7

Typically -6.0°C · 34cm fresh / week · powder day 60% · mixed 35%

Top elev.
2120m
Base elev.
1300m
Pistes
225km
Lifts
44
Piste mix61km mapped
Green2%
Blue64%
Red32%
Black2%
Villars
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COMPOSITE SCORE
66
Snow86
Typically 133cm
Typical depth133cm
100cm161cm
Travel44
From your origin
Size76
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 4–7

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1600m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -6.0°C, with 34cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 60% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
3.2 days/week
spring-like in 48% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
16.6 m/s
peaks to 30 m/s
Typical Freezing level
783 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
60%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0.3 days
per week
Storm
47%
of years
Bluebird
17%
of years
Thaw
2%
of years
Mixed
35%
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
133cm
Temperature
-6.0°C
Fresh snow
34cm
Snow line
784m
Wind
16.6 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Villars's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 4cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 45m a decade.

127cm
136cm
140cm
133cm
126cm
112cm
121cm
103cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
45–244cm

Across single winters (1963–64 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−24cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Other Swiss Alps region moved −29cm.

Freezing level
+45m

Per decade. 961m in 1950–1959, 1323m 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
Bern (BRN)101 min
Chambéry (CMF)150 min
Geneva (GVA)104 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)234 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.

  • CHA3slf
  • CHA2slf