Snow report for Laye today

At Laye, over 12 measured winters at the MOTTE-MOLINES weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 48 days a winter, and 197 cm falls over 22 days of snowfall.

Laye is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 976 m and the ski area rises to 1,868 m, a skiable vertical of 557 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, Laye does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

12 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2018-2019 — on average 48 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “MOTTE-MOLINES” station (1250 m, 10.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec9 cmInsufficient · 11 %
16-31 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 27 %
1-15 Jan22 cmInsufficient · 31 %
16-31 Jan30 cmInsufficient · 48 %
1-15 Feb43 cmVariable · 69 %
16-29 Feb37 cmVariable · 60 %
1-15 Mar30 cmInsufficient · 48 %
16-31 Mar15 cmInsufficient · 23 %
1-15 Apr4 cmInsufficient · 3 %

Best winter of the series: 2017-2018 — 115 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1992-1993 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 197 cm a winter on average, spread over 22 days of snowfall. Measured over 14 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 60 cm — 2014-2015
Snowiest winter: 2017-2018 — 348 cm
Leanest winter: 1992-1993 — 42 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “MOTTE-MOLINES” station (1250 m, 10.2 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 1250 m, well below the top of the ski area (1868 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. Laye stretches from 1,311 m to 1,868 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.