Snow report for Issarbe today

At Issarbe, over 21 measured winters at the Iraty weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 33 days a winter, and 290 cm falls over 34 days of snowfall.

Issarbe is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in the commune of Lanne-en-Barétous. The village sits at 1,500 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, Issarbe 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

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 5.9 h · Dec 5.4 h · Jan 5.5 h · Feb 7 h · Mar 7.8 h · Apr 9.2 h — 23 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December34 cmInsufficient · 40%
January42 cmVariable · 63%
February43 cmVariable · 57%
March47 cmVariable · 60%
April53 cmVariable · 78%
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 « ARETTE LA-PIERRE-SAINT-MARTIN » (1650 m, à 6.3 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

21 complete winters measured, from 1997-1998 to 2018-2019 — on average 33 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Iraty” station (1327 m, 18.3 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec11 cmInsufficient · 16 %
16-31 Dec8 cmInsufficient · 8 %
1-15 Jan9 cmInsufficient · 13 %
16-31 Jan21 cmInsufficient · 31 %
1-15 Feb34 cmInsufficient · 45 %
16-29 Feb35 cmInsufficient · 41 %
1-15 Mar30 cmInsufficient · 35 %
16-31 Mar17 cmInsufficient · 26 %
1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 7 %

Best winter of the series: 2012-2013 — 78 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2007-2008 — 4 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 290 cm a winter on average, spread over 34 days of snowfall. Measured over 20 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 80 cm — 1998-1999
Snowiest winter: 2012-2013 — 567 cm
Leanest winter: 2010-2011 — 148 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Iraty” station (1327 m, 18.3 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 1327 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.