Snow report for Molines-en-Queyras today

At Molines-en-Queyras, over 47 measured winters at the ST VERAN weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 85 days a winter, and 249 cm falls over 28 days of snowfall.

Molines-en-Queyras is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,625 m and the ski area rises to 2,187 m, a skiable vertical of 448 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, Molines-en-Queyras does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from December to April: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 7.1 h · Dec 7 h · Jan 7.3 h · Feb 8.5 h · Mar 9.6 h · Apr 10.7 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November26 cmInsufficient · 34%
December69 cmGood skiing · 87%
January90 cmGood skiing · 98%
February106 cmGood skiing · 100%
March129 cmGood skiing · 100%
April117 cmGood skiing · 100%
May66 cmVariable · 75%

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

Estimate from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (Open-Meteo), about 9 km grid at 1,784 m. Not a resort measurement: during the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of time with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

47 complete winters measured, from 1968-1969 to 2018-2019 — on average 85 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ST VERAN” station (1992 m, 4.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec25 cmInsufficient · 34 %
16-31 Dec37 cmVariable · 53 %
1-15 Jan47 cmVariable · 62 %
16-31 Jan57 cmVariable · 71 %
1-15 Feb59 cmVariable · 74 %
16-29 Feb64 cmVariable · 78 %
1-15 Mar64 cmVariable · 78 %
16-31 Mar52 cmVariable · 64 %
1-15 Apr39 cmVariable · 50 %

Best winter of the series: 2003-2004 — 137 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1980-1981 — 3 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 249 cm a winter on average, spread over 28 days of snowfall. Measured over 48 complete winters, from 1970-1971 to 2018-2019.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 96 cm — 1992-1993
Snowiest winter: 1977-1978 — 595 cm
Leanest winter: 1999-2000 — 137 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ST VERAN” station (1992 m, 4.2 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 1992 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. Molines-en-Queyras stretches from 1,739 m to 2,187 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.