Snow report for Le Sauze today

At Le Sauze, over 52 measured winters at the LES ORRES weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 53 days a winter, and 186 cm falls over 21 days of snowfall.

Le Sauze is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), in the commune of Enchastrayes. The village sits at 1,352 m and the ski area rises to 2,389 m, a skiable vertical of 1,015 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 29 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Le Sauze opens on 19 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

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 7.3 h · Dec 6.9 h · Jan 7.2 h · Feb 8.4 h · Mar 9.7 h · Apr 10.7 h — 27 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November18 cmInsufficient · 22%
December56 cmGood skiing · 83%
January79 cmGood skiing · 97%
February96 cmGood skiing · 100%
March114 cmGood skiing · 100%
April84 cmGood skiing · 93%
May27 cmInsufficient · 38%

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 1,352 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

52 complete winters measured, from 1968-1969 to 2022-2023 — on average 53 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LES ORRES” station (1457 m, 17.9 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec11 cmInsufficient · 15 %
16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 22 %
1-15 Jan26 cmInsufficient · 38 %
16-31 Jan34 cmVariable · 53 %
1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 65 %
16-29 Feb41 cmVariable · 61 %
1-15 Mar34 cmVariable · 53 %
16-31 Mar19 cmInsufficient · 33 %
1-15 Apr8 cmInsufficient · 12 %

Best winter of the series: 1976-1977 — 114 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 — 186 cm a winter on average, spread over 21 days of snowfall. Measured over 53 complete winters, from 1969-1970 to 2022-2023.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 57 cm — 1981-1982
Snowiest winter: 2017-2018 — 335 cm
Leanest winter: 1992-1993 — 21 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LES ORRES” station (1457 m, 17.9 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 1457 m, well below the top of the ski area (2389 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 Sauze stretches from 1,374 m to 2,389 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.