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Snow report for Le Recoin today

At Le Recoin, over 32 measured winters at the L Alpe d Huez (SATA) weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 124 days a winter, and 453 cm falls over 53 days of snowfall.

Le Recoin is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Chamrousse. The village sits at 1,650 m and the ski area rises to 2,246 m, a skiable vertical of 835 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 Recoin 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 April: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.5 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November16 cmInsufficient · 20%
  2. December63 cmGood skiing · 82%
  3. January96 cmGood skiing · 99%
  4. February120 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March129 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April91 cmGood skiing · 93%
  7. May25 cmInsufficient · 35%

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 1,665 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

32 complete winters measured, from 1991-1992 to 2025-2026 — on average 124 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “L Alpe d Huez (SATA)” station (1860 m, 15.6 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec43 cmVariable · 61 %
  2. 16-31 Dec58 cmVariable · 79 %
  3. 1-15 Jan76 cmGood skiing · 97 %
  4. 16-31 Jan94 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  5. 1-15 Feb111 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  6. 16-29 Feb121 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  7. 1-15 Mar125 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  8. 16-31 Mar113 cmGood skiing · 97 %
  9. 1-15 Apr96 cmGood skiing · 93 %
Best winter of the series
2012-2013 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2016-2017 — 91 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 453 cm a winter on average, spread over 53 days of snowfall. Measured over 30 complete winters, from 1994-1995 to 2025-2026.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
70 cm — 2011-2012
Snowiest winter
2012-2013 — 767 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 206 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “L Alpe d Huez (SATA)” station (1860 m, 15.6 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 1860 m. 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 Recoin stretches from 1,411 m to 2,246 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by OFFICE DE TOURISME and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September