Snow report for Bessans today

At Bessans, over 68 measured winters at the BESSANS-CLIM weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 112 days a winter, and 395 cm falls over 52 days of snowfall.

Bessans is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 1,707 m and the ski area rises to 1,842 m, a skiable vertical of 132 m.

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Today’s snow report

Off season · opens 31 October 2026

The domain is due to open on 31 October 2026 and close on 4 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Bessans opens on 31 October 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

68 complete winters measured, from 1958-1959 to 2025-2026 — on average 112 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “BESSANS-CLIM” station (1731 m, 0.8 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec33 cmInsufficient · 44 %
16-31 Dec50 cmVariable · 67 %
1-15 Jan65 cmGood skiing · 85 %
16-31 Jan76 cmGood skiing · 89 %
1-15 Feb87 cmGood skiing · 94 %
16-29 Feb96 cmGood skiing · 97 %
1-15 Mar97 cmGood skiing · 99 %
16-31 Mar85 cmGood skiing · 95 %
1-15 Apr61 cmVariable · 70 %

Best winter of the series: 1959-1960 — 137 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1963-1964 — 1 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 395 cm a winter on average, spread over 52 days of snowfall. Measured over 71 complete winters, from 1953-1954 to 2023-2024.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 147 cm — 1968-1969
Snowiest winter: 1979-1980 — 779 cm
Leanest winter: 1963-1964 — 165 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “BESSANS-CLIM” station (1731 m, 0.8 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 1731 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.

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.8 h · Dec 6.7 h · Jan 7.1 h · Feb 8.2 h · Mar 9.1 h · Apr 10.2 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

Why altitude matters. Bessans stretches from 1,710 m to 1,842 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

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