Snow report for Les Plans d'Hotonnes today

At Les Plans d'Hotonnes, over 46 measured winters at the GIRON weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 32 days a winter, and 199 cm falls over 23 days of snowfall.

Les Plans d'Hotonnes is a ski resort in the Jura (Ain), in the commune of Haut Valromey. The village sits at 1,031 m and the ski area rises to 1,226 m, a skiable vertical of 230 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, Les Plans d'Hotonnes does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

46 complete winters measured, from 1964-1965 to 2018-2019 — on average 32 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “GIRON” station (1009 m, 22.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec12 cmInsufficient · 17 %
16-31 Dec13 cmInsufficient · 18 %
1-15 Jan16 cmInsufficient · 21 %
16-31 Jan25 cmInsufficient · 32 %
1-15 Feb28 cmInsufficient · 34 %
16-29 Feb29 cmInsufficient · 43 %
1-15 Mar22 cmInsufficient · 32 %
16-31 Mar10 cmInsufficient · 13 %
1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 5 %

Best winter of the series: 1969-1970 — 98 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2000-2001 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 199 cm a winter on average, spread over 23 days of snowfall. Measured over 29 complete winters, from 1985-1986 to 2019-2020.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 48 cm — 2018-2019
Snowiest winter: 1998-1999 — 449 cm
Leanest winter: 2000-2001 — 43 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “GIRON” station (1009 m, 22.1 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 1009 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. Les Plans d'Hotonnes stretches from 996 m to 1,226 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.