Snow report for La Forêt Blanche today

At La Forêt Blanche, over 33 measured winters at the CEILLAC weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 50 days a winter, and 227 cm falls over 36 days of snowfall.

La Forêt Blanche is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Vars. The village sits at 1,660 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, La Forêt Blanche 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 7.2 h · Dec 6.8 h · Jan 7.2 h · Feb 8.4 h · Mar 9.6 h · Apr 10.6 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December89 cmGood skiing · 100%
January92 cmGood skiing · 84%
February114 cmGood skiing · 100%
March132 cmGood skiing · 99%
April101 cmGood skiing · 94%
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 « Vars » (1855 m, à 2.8 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

33 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2025-2026 — on average 50 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “CEILLAC” station (1665 m, 10.8 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec14 cmInsufficient · 16 %
16-31 Dec22 cmInsufficient · 30 %
1-15 Jan30 cmInsufficient · 48 %
16-31 Jan35 cmVariable · 57 %
1-15 Feb37 cmVariable · 62 %
16-29 Feb33 cmVariable · 56 %
1-15 Mar27 cmInsufficient · 41 %
16-31 Mar13 cmInsufficient · 17 %
1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 6 %

Best winter of the series: 2017-2018 — 121 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2006-2007 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 227 cm a winter on average, spread over 36 days of snowfall. Measured over 34 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 55 cm — 2012-2013
Snowiest winter: 2017-2018 — 402 cm
Leanest winter: 2004-2005 — 108 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “CEILLAC” station (1665 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 1665 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.