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Snow report for Courchevel 1850 today

At Courchevel 1850, over 41 measured winters at the La Plagne weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 127 days a winter, and 481 cm falls over 56 days of snowfall.

Courchevel 1850 is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Courchevel. The village sits at 1,760 m and the ski area rises to 2,700 m, a skiable vertical of 1,350 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, Courchevel 1850 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 April: a long, reliable season.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.2 h · Apr 9.9 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November15 cmInsufficient · 15%
  2. December63 cmGood skiing · 84%
  3. January96 cmGood skiing · 95%
  4. February120 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March136 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April98 cmGood skiing · 94%
  7. 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 « Courchevel » (1780 m, à 0.2 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

41 complete winters measured, from 1981-1982 to 2025-2026 — on average 127 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “La Plagne” station (1980 m, 10.8 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec45 cmVariable · 66 %
  2. 16-31 Dec67 cmGood skiing · 84 %
  3. 1-15 Jan87 cmGood skiing · 95 %
  4. 16-31 Jan105 cmGood skiing · 98 %
  5. 1-15 Feb121 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  6. 16-29 Feb133 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  7. 1-15 Mar143 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  8. 16-31 Mar136 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  9. 1-15 Apr122 cmGood skiing · 98 %
Best winter of the series
1987-1988 — 137 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
1989-1990 — 80 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 481 cm a winter on average, spread over 56 days of snowfall. Measured over 31 complete winters, from 1994-1995 to 2024-2025.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
85 cm — 1994-1995
Snowiest winter
1994-1995 — 844 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 197 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “La Plagne” station (1980 m, 10.8 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 1980 m, well below the top of the ski area (2700 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. Courchevel 1850 stretches from 1,350 m to 2,700 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by COURCHEVEL TOURISME and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September