Snow report for Orelle today

At Orelle, over 31 measured winters at the ALBIEZ weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 78 days a winter, and 336 cm falls over 42 days of snowfall.

Orelle is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 819 m and the ski area rises to 3,221 m, a skiable vertical of 1,490 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 21 November 2026 and close on 2 May 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Orelle opens on 21 November 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

Average snow depth by month

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

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.6 h · Dec 5.8 h · Jan 6.2 h · Feb 7.5 h · Mar 8.7 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November32 cmVariable · 50%
December93 cmGood skiing · 97%
January133 cmGood skiing · 100%
February156 cmGood skiing · 100%
March174 cmGood skiing · 100%
April155 cmGood skiing · 100%
May100 cmGood skiing · 87%

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 987 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

31 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2022-2023 — on average 78 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ALBIEZ” station (1540 m, 15.4 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec22 cmInsufficient · 29 %
16-31 Dec27 cmInsufficient · 40 %
1-15 Jan34 cmVariable · 53 %
16-31 Jan47 cmVariable · 73 %
1-15 Feb55 cmGood skiing · 85 %
16-29 Feb57 cmGood skiing · 84 %
1-15 Mar55 cmGood skiing · 82 %
16-31 Mar35 cmInsufficient · 48 %
1-15 Apr16 cmInsufficient · 22 %

Best winter of the series: 2012-2013 — 134 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1992-1993 — 5 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 336 cm a winter on average, spread over 42 days of snowfall. Measured over 31 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 50 cm — 2011-2012
Snowiest winter: 1993-1994 — 537 cm
Leanest winter: 1996-1997 — 135 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ALBIEZ” station (1540 m, 15.4 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 1540 m, well below the top of the ski area (3221 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.

Why altitude matters. Orelle stretches from 1,731 m to 3,221 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.