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Snow report for Le Grand-Bornand today

At Le Grand-Bornand, over 34 measured winters at the GRAND BORNAND weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 86 days a winter, and 472 cm falls over 41 days of snowfall.

Le Grand-Bornand is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 892 m and the ski area rises to 2,255 m, a skiable vertical of 1,225 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 Grand-Bornand 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.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.1 h · Dec 5.5 h · Jan 5.7 h · Feb 7 h · Mar 8.4 h · Apr 10 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November8 cmInsufficient · 6%
  2. December42 cmVariable · 58%
  3. January74 cmGood skiing · 90%
  4. February89 cmGood skiing · 96%
  5. March87 cmGood skiing · 85%
  6. April48 cmVariable · 57%
  7. May7 cmInsufficient · 10%

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 947 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

34 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2025-2026 — on average 86 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “GRAND BORNAND” station (1300 m, 3.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec27 cmInsufficient · 31 %
  2. 16-31 Dec36 cmVariable · 50 %
  3. 1-15 Jan48 cmVariable · 72 %
  4. 16-31 Jan65 cmGood skiing · 85 %
  5. 1-15 Feb75 cmGood skiing · 84 %
  6. 16-29 Feb78 cmGood skiing · 86 %
  7. 1-15 Mar73 cmGood skiing · 81 %
  8. 16-31 Mar48 cmVariable · 56 %
  9. 1-15 Apr24 cmInsufficient · 26 %
Best winter of the series
2005-2006 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
1992-1993 — 6 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 472 cm a winter on average, spread over 41 days of snowfall. Measured over 34 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
65 cm — 2014-2015
Snowiest winter
1998-1999 — 867 cm
Leanest winter
1996-1997 — 159 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “GRAND BORNAND” station (1300 m, 3.5 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 1300 m, well below the top of the ski area (2255 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. Le Grand-Bornand stretches from 1,030 m to 2,255 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by LE GRAND-BORNAND TOURISME and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September