Snow report for La Garde today

At La Garde, over 49 measured winters at the LAVALDENS weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 34 days a winter, and 214 cm falls over 27 days of snowfall.

La Garde is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère). The village sits at 715 m and the ski area rises to 2,112 m, a skiable vertical of 302 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 Garde 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 6.4 h · Dec 5.8 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.5 h · Mar 8.7 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December40 cmVariable · 59%
January46 cmVariable · 74%
February51 cmVariable · 76%
March45 cmVariable · 64%
April20 cmInsufficient · 24%
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 « Olmet » (1350 m, à 6.9 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

49 complete winters measured, from 1964-1965 to 2017-2018 — on average 34 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LAVALDENS” station (1070 m, 15.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec12 cmInsufficient · 14 %
16-31 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 21 %
1-15 Jan22 cmInsufficient · 30 %
16-31 Jan27 cmInsufficient · 32 %
1-15 Feb28 cmInsufficient · 35 %
16-29 Feb29 cmInsufficient · 38 %
1-15 Mar24 cmInsufficient · 32 %
16-31 Mar13 cmInsufficient · 19 %
1-15 Apr6 cmInsufficient · 8 %

Best winter of the series: 1980-1981 — 115 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1988-1989 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 214 cm a winter on average, spread over 27 days of snowfall. Measured over 60 complete winters, from 1959-1960 to 2020-2021.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 52 cm — 2012-2013
Snowiest winter: 1969-1970 — 481 cm
Leanest winter: 1992-1993 — 53 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LAVALDENS” station (1070 m, 15.5 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 1070 m, well below the top of the ski area (2112 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. La Garde stretches from 1,810 m to 2,112 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.