Snow report for Ballon d'Alsace today

At Ballon d'Alsace, over 10 measured winters at the LA PLANCHE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 43 days a winter, and 282 cm falls over 30 days of snowfall.

Ballon d'Alsace is a ski resort in the Vosges (Haut-Rhin), in the commune of Sewen. The village sits at 1,104 m and the ski area rises to 1,157 m, a skiable vertical of 335 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, Ballon d'Alsace does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

10 complete winters measured, from 1989-1990 to 2018-2019 — on average 43 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LA PLANCHE” station (1030 m, 7.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec13 cmInsufficient · 21 %
16-31 Dec19 cmInsufficient · 16 %
1-15 Jan22 cmInsufficient · 30 %
16-31 Jan33 cmInsufficient · 38 %
1-15 Feb39 cmInsufficient · 36 %
16-29 Feb48 cmVariable · 53 %
1-15 Mar49 cmVariable · 51 %
16-31 Mar27 cmInsufficient · 29 %
1-15 Apr9 cmInsufficient · 13 %

Best winter of the series: 2005-2006 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1989-1990 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 282 cm a winter on average, spread over 30 days of snowfall. Measured over 10 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 70 cm — 2005-2006
Snowiest winter: 2005-2006 — 550 cm
Leanest winter: 1989-1990 — 83 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LA PLANCHE” station (1030 m, 7.2 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 1030 m. 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. Ballon d'Alsace stretches from 822 m to 1,157 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.