Snow report for Abondance today

At Abondance, over 39 measured winters at the CHATEL weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 70 days a winter, and 326 cm falls over 40 days of snowfall.

Abondance is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,096 m and the ski area rises to 1,674 m, a skiable vertical of 732 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

Open pistes and lifts will appear here during the season, as published by the resort. Out of season we show nothing rather than a misleading zero.

Off season, Abondance does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from December to March: a long, reliable season.

Météo-France measurements · 9 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6 h · Dec 5.3 h · Jan 5.5 h · Feb 7 h · Mar 8.4 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December74 cmGood skiing · 85%
January98 cmGood skiing · 93%
February122 cmGood skiing · 100%
March130 cmGood skiing · 100%
April86 cmVariable · 79%
May—no record

30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.

Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two

Météo-France snow observation network (poste nivo « CHATEL NIVO » (1635 m, à 7.1 km)) — total snow depth recorded by the resort observers, open archive. During the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of readings with at least 30 cm on the ground; “—”: month without readings.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

39 complete winters measured, from 1983-1984 to 2021-2022 — on average 70 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “CHATEL” station (1155 m, 6.7 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec16 cmInsufficient · 17 %
16-31 Dec25 cmInsufficient · 39 %
1-15 Jan34 cmVariable · 55 %
16-31 Jan47 cmVariable · 75 %
1-15 Feb57 cmGood skiing · 80 %
16-29 Feb60 cmVariable · 79 %
1-15 Mar49 cmVariable · 68 %
16-31 Mar27 cmInsufficient · 33 %
1-15 Apr13 cmInsufficient · 19 %

Best winter of the series: 2012-2013 — 130 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1989-1990 — 1 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 326 cm a winter on average, spread over 40 days of snowfall. Measured over 39 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 48 cm — 1988-1989
Snowiest winter: 1998-1999 — 570 cm
Leanest winter: 1996-1997 — 110 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “CHATEL” station (1155 m, 6.7 km away), from the open “Daily climatological data” dataset (Open Licence 2.0). The season is counted from 1 December to 15 April; only winters with at least 95 % of those 136 days measured are kept, so no figure here rests on a handful of readings. The reading is taken at 1155 m, well below the top of the ski area (1674 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails. Snowfall figures are the fresh snow depth over 24 hours recorded at the same station (the HNEIGEF column): a day of snowfall is a day with 1 cm or more, and only winters measured 95 % of the time on that column are counted — which is why the record can be longer or shorter than the one for snow on the ground. More snow always falls than remains: some melts, settles or blows away.

Why altitude matters. Abondance stretches from 942 m to 1,674 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.