Snow report for Combelouvière today

At Combelouvière, over 27 measured winters at the Meribel Mottaret weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 115 days a winter, and 344 cm falls over 45 days of snowfall.

Combelouvière is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of La Léchère. The village sits at 1,255 m and the ski area rises to 2,516 m, a skiable vertical of 1,297 m.

Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 18 December 2026 and close on 10 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Combelouvière opens on 18 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

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 6.3 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 6 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.2 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. Novemberno record
  2. December29 cmInsufficient · 36%
  3. January43 cmVariable · 64%
  4. February52 cmVariable · 69%
  5. March43 cmVariable · 58%
  6. April19 cmInsufficient · 25%
  7. Mayno 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 « Valmorel » (1333 m, à 4.1 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

27 complete winters measured, from 1991-1992 to 2025-2026 — on average 115 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Meribel Mottaret” station (1700 m, 17.3 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec29 cmInsufficient · 40 %
  2. 16-31 Dec43 cmVariable · 62 %
  3. 1-15 Jan59 cmGood skiing · 93 %
  4. 16-31 Jan74 cmGood skiing · 97 %
  5. 1-15 Feb87 cmGood skiing · 99 %
  6. 16-29 Feb95 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  7. 1-15 Mar93 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  8. 16-31 Mar76 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  9. 1-15 Apr53 cmGood skiing · 80 %
Best winter of the series
2021-2022 — 135 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2016-2017 — 67 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 344 cm a winter on average, spread over 45 days of snowfall. Measured over 28 complete winters, from 1995-1996 to 2025-2026.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
53 cm — 2011-2012
Snowiest winter
2011-2012 — 517 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 157 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Meribel Mottaret” station (1700 m, 17.3 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 1700 m, well below the top of the ski area (2516 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. Combelouvière stretches from 1,219 m to 2,516 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.