Snow report for La Grave today

At La Grave, over 18 measured winters at the BESSE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 52 days a winter, and 272 cm falls over 31 days of snowfall.

La Grave is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,135 m and the ski area rises to 2,416 m, a skiable vertical of 916 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 Grave 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 May: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.5 h · Dec 5.8 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.6 h · Mar 8.7 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November35 cmVariable · 50%
December100 cmGood skiing · 99%
January145 cmGood skiing · 100%
February166 cmGood skiing · 100%
March184 cmGood skiing · 100%
April163 cmGood skiing · 100%
May112 cmGood skiing · 92%

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

Estimate from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (Open-Meteo), about 9 km grid at 1,523 m. Not a resort measurement: during the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of time with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

18 complete winters measured, from 2000-2001 to 2018-2019 — on average 52 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “BESSE” station (1520 m, 11.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec13 cmInsufficient · 20 %
16-31 Dec23 cmInsufficient · 40 %
1-15 Jan29 cmInsufficient · 43 %
16-31 Jan39 cmVariable · 58 %
1-15 Feb44 cmVariable · 69 %
16-29 Feb38 cmVariable · 60 %
1-15 Mar27 cmInsufficient · 43 %
16-31 Mar8 cmInsufficient · 13 %
1-15 Apr1 cmInsufficient · 1 %

Best winter of the series: 2005-2006 — 118 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2000-2001 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 272 cm a winter on average, spread over 31 days of snowfall. Measured over 40 complete winters, from 1980-1981 to 2019-2020.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 48 cm — 2007-2008
Snowiest winter: 1983-1984 — 466 cm
Leanest winter: 1992-1993 — 87 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “BESSE” station (1520 m, 11.2 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 1520 m, well below the top of the ski area (2416 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 Grave stretches from 1,500 m to 2,416 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.