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Snow report for Monts Jura today

At Monts Jura, over 21 measured winters at the LA PESSE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 36 days a winter, and 260 cm falls over 37 days of snowfall.

Monts Jura is a ski resort in the Jura (Ain), in the commune of Lélex. The village sits at 900 m and the ski area rises to 1,680 m, a skiable vertical of 780 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.

Monts Jura 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

21 complete winters measured, from 2004-2005 to 2025-2026 — on average 36 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “LA PESSE” station (1133 m, 8.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 21 %
  2. 16-31 Dec16 cmInsufficient · 29 %
  3. 1-15 Jan14 cmInsufficient · 19 %
  4. 16-31 Jan23 cmInsufficient · 42 %
  5. 1-15 Feb27 cmInsufficient · 40 %
  6. 16-29 Feb25 cmInsufficient · 38 %
  7. 1-15 Mar22 cmInsufficient · 30 %
  8. 16-31 Mar12 cmInsufficient · 16 %
  9. 1-15 Apr3 cmInsufficient · 4 %
Best winter of the series
2008-2009 — 108 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2025-2026 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 260 cm a winter on average, spread over 37 days of snowfall. Measured over 11 complete winters, from 2004-2005 to 2018-2019.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
44 cm — 2018-2019
Snowiest winter
2012-2013 — 333 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 89 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “LA PESSE” station (1133 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 1133 m, well below the top of the ski area (1680 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 5.5 h · Dec 4.9 h · Jan 5 h · Feb 6.5 h · Mar 8 h · Apr 9.6 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

Why altitude matters. Monts Jura stretches from 900 m to 1,680 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