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Snow report for Menthières today

At Menthières, 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.

Menthières is a ski resort in the Jura (Ain). The village sits at 1,093 m and the ski area rises to 1,161 m.

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Today’s snow report

Off season · opens 19 December 2026

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.

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

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, 8.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec12 cmInsufficient · 17 %
  2. 16-31 Dec13 cmInsufficient · 18 %
  3. 1-15 Jan16 cmInsufficient · 21 %
  4. 16-31 Jan25 cmInsufficient · 32 %
  5. 1-15 Feb28 cmInsufficient · 34 %
  6. 16-29 Feb29 cmInsufficient · 43 %
  7. 1-15 Mar22 cmInsufficient · 32 %
  8. 16-31 Mar10 cmInsufficient · 13 %
  9. 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, 8.2 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.

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 5.5 h · Dec 4.9 h · Jan 5 h · Feb 6.5 h · Mar 8 h · Apr 9.6 h — 24 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

Why altitude matters. Menthières stretches to 1,161 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

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Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme du Pays de Gex and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October