Snow report for Métabief today

At Métabief, over 17 measured winters at the LES FOURGS weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 42 days a winter, and 251 cm falls over 43 days of snowfall.

Métabief is a ski resort in the Jura (Doubs). The village sits at 1,013 m and the ski area rises to 1,253 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, Métabief 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

17 complete winters measured, from 2004-2005 to 2020-2021 — on average 42 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LES FOURGS” station (1140 m, 9.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 19 %
16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 29 %
1-15 Jan18 cmInsufficient · 31 %
16-31 Jan27 cmInsufficient · 43 %
1-15 Feb34 cmInsufficient · 48 %
16-29 Feb34 cmInsufficient · 48 %
1-15 Mar29 cmInsufficient · 36 %
16-31 Mar17 cmInsufficient · 24 %
1-15 Apr3 cmInsufficient · 4 %

Best winter of the series: 2005-2006 — 116 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2013-2014 — 1 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 251 cm a winter on average, spread over 43 days of snowfall. Measured over 17 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 40 cm — 2018-2019
Snowiest winter: 2012-2013 — 349 cm
Leanest winter: 2010-2011 — 128 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LES FOURGS” station (1140 m, 9.5 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 1140 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. Métabief stretches from 1,253 m to 1,253 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.