Snow report for Le Chinaillon today

At Le Chinaillon, over 11 measured winters at the LE GRAND-BORNAND weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 115 days a winter.

Le Chinaillon is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Le Grand-Bornand. The village sits at 1,300 m and the ski area rises to 1,814 m, a skiable vertical of 539 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, Le Chinaillon 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 January to March.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.1 h · Dec 5.5 h · Jan 5.7 h · Feb 7 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December44 cmVariable · 65%
January63 cmGood skiing · 85%
February72 cmGood skiing · 96%
March67 cmGood skiing · 87%
April56 cmVariable · 70%
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 « Le Grand Bornand » (1270 m, à 0.2 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

11 complete winters measured, from 2015-2016 to 2025-2026 — on average 115 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LE GRAND-BORNAND” station (1430 m, 1.6 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec42 cmVariable · 55 %
16-31 Dec54 cmVariable · 72 %
1-15 Jan66 cmVariable · 78 %
16-31 Jan93 cmGood skiing · 99 %
1-15 Feb107 cmGood skiing · 100 %
16-29 Feb110 cmGood skiing · 97 %
1-15 Mar119 cmGood skiing · 94 %
16-31 Mar108 cmGood skiing · 95 %
1-15 Apr77 cmVariable · 73 %

Best winter of the series: 2017-2018 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2022-2023 — 67 days at 30 cm or more

Snowfall: no long enough record of fresh snow at this station. Rather than an estimate, we show nothing.

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LE GRAND-BORNAND” station (1430 m, 1.6 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 1430 m. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails.

Why altitude matters. Le Chinaillon stretches from 1,275 m to 1,814 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.