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Snow report for Montchavin today

At Montchavin, over 63 measured winters at the PEISEY NANCROIX weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 44 days a winter, and 252 cm falls over 33 days of snowfall.

Montchavin is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of La Plagne Tarentaise. The village sits at 1,200 m and the ski area rises to 1,989 m, a skiable vertical of 679 m.

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Today’s snow report

Off season · opens 12 December 2026

The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026 and close on 17 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Montchavin opens on 12 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

63 complete winters measured, from 1959-1960 to 2021-2022 — on average 44 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “PEISEY NANCROIX” station (1350 m, 2.4 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec13 cmInsufficient · 14 %
  2. 16-31 Dec22 cmInsufficient · 26 %
  3. 1-15 Jan28 cmInsufficient · 39 %
  4. 16-31 Jan35 cmVariable · 51 %
  5. 1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 58 %
  6. 16-29 Feb35 cmVariable · 57 %
  7. 1-15 Mar22 cmInsufficient · 31 %
  8. 16-31 Mar10 cmInsufficient · 12 %
  9. 1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 6 %
Best winter of the series
1962-1963 — 119 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
1963-1964 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 252 cm a winter on average, spread over 33 days of snowfall. Measured over 64 complete winters, from 1959-1960 to 2022-2023.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
90 cm — 1970-1971
Snowiest winter
1969-1970 — 504 cm
Leanest winter
1963-1964 — 51 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “PEISEY NANCROIX” station (1350 m, 2.4 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 1350 m, well below the top of the ski area (1989 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.

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.3 h · Dec 5.5 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7 h · Mar 8 h · Apr 9.9 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

Why altitude matters. Montchavin stretches from 1,310 m to 1,989 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 La Plagne Montchavin-Les Coches and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October