Snow report for Les Carroz today

At Les Carroz, over 12 measured winters at the LES CARROZ VILLAGE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 50 days a winter, and 325 cm falls over 42 days of snowfall.

Les Carroz is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Arâches-la-Frasse. The village sits at 1,150 m and the ski area rises to 1,740 m, a skiable vertical of 580 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026 and close on 11 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Les Carroz opens on 12 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 January to March.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December54 cmVariable · 77%
January77 cmGood skiing · 87%
February94 cmGood skiing · 98%
March101 cmGood skiing · 91%
April61 cmVariable · 64%
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 « Flaine » (1620 m, à 4.8 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

12 complete winters measured, from 2002-2003 to 2015-2016 — on average 50 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LES CARROZ VILLAGE” station (1152 m, 0 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 19 %
16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 25 %
1-15 Jan19 cmInsufficient · 23 %
16-31 Jan33 cmVariable · 55 %
1-15 Feb46 cmVariable · 69 %
16-29 Feb44 cmVariable · 61 %
1-15 Mar38 cmVariable · 52 %
16-31 Mar20 cmInsufficient · 25 %
1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 8 %

Best winter of the series: 2008-2009 — 120 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2006-2007 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 325 cm a winter on average, spread over 42 days of snowfall. Measured over 14 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 36 cm — 2002-2003
Snowiest winter: 2012-2013 — 521 cm
Leanest winter: 2010-2011 — 144 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LES CARROZ VILLAGE” station (1152 m, 0 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 1152 m, well below the top of the ski area (1740 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. Les Carroz stretches from 1,160 m to 1,740 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.