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Snow report for Orange today

At Orange, over 36 measured winters at the CLUSAZ (LA) weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 70 days a winter, and 349 cm falls over 35 days of snowfall.

Orange is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Saint-Sixt. The village sits at 1,097 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, Orange 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

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 5.8 h · Dec 5.3 h · Jan 5.5 h · Feb 6.8 h · Mar 8.3 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November5 cmInsufficient · 2%
  2. December28 cmInsufficient · 41%
  3. January48 cmVariable · 76%
  4. February55 cmVariable · 74%
  5. March45 cmVariable · 59%
  6. April14 cmInsufficient · 17%
  7. May1 cmInsufficient · 0%

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 1,097 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

36 complete winters measured, from 1988-1989 to 2023-2024 — on average 70 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “CLUSAZ (LA)” station (1180 m, 17.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec21 cmInsufficient · 31 %
  2. 16-31 Dec28 cmInsufficient · 42 %
  3. 1-15 Jan33 cmVariable · 55 %
  4. 16-31 Jan45 cmVariable · 73 %
  5. 1-15 Feb54 cmVariable · 74 %
  6. 16-29 Feb56 cmVariable · 72 %
  7. 1-15 Mar49 cmVariable · 64 %
  8. 16-31 Mar29 cmInsufficient · 39 %
  9. 1-15 Apr12 cmInsufficient · 16 %
Best winter of the series
2012-2013 — 134 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
1989-1990 — 3 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 349 cm a winter on average, spread over 35 days of snowfall. Measured over 36 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
50 cm — 1994-1995
Snowiest winter
1998-1999 — 691 cm
Leanest winter
1996-1997 — 117 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “CLUSAZ (LA)” station (1180 m, 17.5 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 1180 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.