Snow report for Gavarnie-Gèdre today

At Gavarnie-Gèdre, over 14 measured winters at the Piau weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 105 days a winter, and 536 cm falls over 58 days of snowfall.

Gavarnie-Gèdre is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Hautes-Pyrénées). The village sits at 1,812 m and the ski area rises to 2,258 m, a skiable vertical of 438 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 14 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Gavarnie-Gèdre opens on 19 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from February to March.

Météo-France measurements · 8 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.8 h · Dec 6.4 h · Jan 6.7 h · Feb 8 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December42 cmInsufficient · 49%
January50 cmVariable · 70%
February63 cmGood skiing · 80%
March81 cmGood skiing · 94%
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 « GAVARNIE_ESPECIERES » (1840 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

14 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2021-2022 — on average 105 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Piau” station (1860 m, 16.6 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec54 cmVariable · 71 %
16-31 Dec52 cmVariable · 78 %
1-15 Jan57 cmVariable · 78 %
16-31 Jan76 cmGood skiing · 91 %
1-15 Feb96 cmGood skiing · 87 %
16-29 Feb93 cmGood skiing · 88 %
1-15 Mar94 cmGood skiing · 82 %
16-31 Mar73 cmVariable · 74 %
1-15 Apr59 cmVariable · 65 %

Best winter of the series: 2013-2014 — 133 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1992-1993 — 36 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 536 cm a winter on average, spread over 58 days of snowfall. Measured over 13 complete winters, from 1995-1996 to 2021-2022.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 99 cm — 2012-2013
Snowiest winter: 2012-2013 — 985 cm
Leanest winter: 1996-1997 — 342 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Piau” station (1860 m, 16.6 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 1860 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. Gavarnie-Gèdre stretches from 1,820 m to 2,258 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.