One page per resort, with the source of every figure
SkiRadar gathers on a single page what you need before choosing a French ski resort or setting off: where it is, how high it goes, how many pistes, what the lift pass costs, whether there is snow today, what its webcams show, and where to book your stay and your gear.
Where the data comes from
- Identity and location — Wikidata (name, commune, coordinates, official website, Wikimedia Commons photo).
- Ski area — OpenStreetMap (pistes by difficulty, lifts, altitudes) and the resorts' own official sites.
- Lift passes — each resort's official price list, read once a season; the date of that reading and the link to the price list are shown on the page.
- Snow and opening — the reports the resorts publish themselves, refreshed daily during the season. Out of season the page says so, rather than showing a stale figure.
- Webcams — only the official players the resort or its operator makes available for embedding. We never capture a video stream.
The public datasets we reuse
Every night the site re-reads these open datasets. They are listed so that anyone can check, and because their producers deserve the credit.
- Daily climatological data (Météo-France, Licence Ouverte) — snow depth and snowfall measured at the nearest weather station.
- Snow and weather network archive (Météo-France, Licence Ouverte) — mountain readings, snow-depth history.
- Météo-France API — avalanche bulletins by massif, weather warnings by département, station observations.
- National EV charging-point database (Etalab, Licence Ouverte).
- DATAtourisme (ADN Tourisme, Licence Ouverte) — non-ski activities around each resort.
- The French school calendar (Ministry of Education, Licence Ouverte) — holidays by zone and expected crowds.
- Ski-lift register (STRMTG) (Ministry of Ecological Transition, Licence Ouverte) — every lift's capacity, year and manufacturer.
- OpenStreetMap (ODbL) and Wikidata (CC0) — ski areas, identity, shops and services around the resort.
What is automated
Collection and updating run automatically, every night. When a figure is missing, the page shows “n.c.” rather than an estimate. When a figure has a date, that date is shown. The descriptive text is written from the page's own data, then read over.
How the site is funded
Some links to our accommodation, ski-hire and activity partners are affiliate links: if you book, we earn a commission, at no change to your price. It influences neither the data shown nor the order of the resorts. Full detail on the Transparency page (French).
Who publishes the site
SkiRadar is published by Hestia Data, which also publishes concerts.paris. Write to us for a correction or a question.