Snow report for Ascou-Pailhères today

At Ascou-Pailhères, over 16 measured winters at the FORMIGUERES weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 9 days a winter.

Ascou-Pailhères is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Ariège), in the commune of Ascou. The village sits at 1,504 m and the ski area rises to 2,044 m, a skiable vertical of 552 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, Ascou-Pailhères 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

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.9 h · Dec 6.4 h · Jan 6.3 h · Feb 7.9 h · Mar 9.1 h · Apr 9.8 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December45 cmVariable · 63%
January45 cmVariable · 57%
February49 cmVariable · 66%
March34 cmVariable · 56%
April—no record
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 « Ascou Pailheres » (1500 m, à 0.1 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

16 complete winters measured, from 2005-2006 to 2025-2026 — on average 9 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “FORMIGUERES” station (1495 m, 18.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec8 cmInsufficient · 5 %
16-31 Dec7 cmInsufficient · 7 %
1-15 Jan7 cmInsufficient · 4 %
16-31 Jan9 cmInsufficient · 7 %
1-15 Feb12 cmInsufficient · 19 %
16-29 Feb7 cmInsufficient · 7 %
1-15 Mar6 cmInsufficient · 9 %
16-31 Mar3 cmInsufficient · 2 %
1-15 Apr1 cmInsufficient · 0 %

Best winter of the series: 2005-2006 — 41 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2007-2008 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

Snowfall: no long enough record of fresh snow at this station. Rather than an estimate, we show nothing.

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “FORMIGUERES” station (1495 m, 18.1 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 1495 m, well below the top of the ski area (2044 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails.

Why altitude matters. Ascou-Pailhères stretches from 1,492 m to 2,044 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.