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Snow report for Les Karellis today

At Les Karellis, over 24 measured winters at the Les Menuires weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 93 days a winter, and 355 cm falls over 50 days of snowfall.

Les Karellis is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Montricher-Albanne. The village sits at 1,614 m and the ski area rises to 2,496 m, a skiable vertical of 896 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 10 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Les Karellis 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 February to March.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.6 h · Dec 5.8 h · Jan 6.2 h · Feb 7.5 h · Mar 8.7 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December36 cmVariable · 54%
  3. January52 cmVariable · 77%
  4. February65 cmGood skiing · 91%
  5. March64 cmGood skiing · 83%
  6. April41 cmVariable · 60%
  7. 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 « Les Karellis » (1603 m, à 0.1 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

24 complete winters measured, from 1972-1973 to 2022-2023 — on average 93 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Les Menuires” station (1800 m, 15.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec30 cmInsufficient · 40 %
  2. 16-31 Dec35 cmInsufficient · 48 %
  3. 1-15 Jan42 cmVariable · 65 %
  4. 16-31 Jan50 cmVariable · 77 %
  5. 1-15 Feb60 cmGood skiing · 88 %
  6. 16-29 Feb67 cmGood skiing · 91 %
  7. 1-15 Mar66 cmGood skiing · 88 %
  8. 16-31 Mar53 cmVariable · 78 %
  9. 1-15 Apr33 cmInsufficient · 48 %
Best winter of the series
2012-2013 — 133 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2000-2001 — 10 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 355 cm a winter on average, spread over 50 days of snowfall. Measured over 24 complete winters, from 1996-1997 to 2022-2023.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
55 cm — 2006-2007
Snowiest winter
2012-2013 — 540 cm
Leanest winter
1996-1997 — 173 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Les Menuires” station (1800 m, 15.1 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 1800 m, well below the top of the ski area (2496 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 Karellis stretches from 1,600 m to 2,496 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 Les Karellis and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September