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Snow report for Pipay today

At Pipay, over 19 measured winters at the ST HILAIRE-NIVOSE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 30 days a winter.

Pipay is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Theys. The village sits at 1,550 m and the ski area rises to 2,236 m, a skiable vertical of 336 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, Pipay 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 January to March.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.8 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.5 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 10.1 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November8 cmInsufficient · 5%
  2. December39 cmVariable · 59%
  3. January64 cmGood skiing · 88%
  4. February78 cmGood skiing · 94%
  5. March76 cmGood skiing · 86%
  6. April44 cmVariable · 62%
  7. May8 cmInsufficient · 11%

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 1,562 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

19 complete winters measured, from 1997-1998 to 2025-2026 — on average 30 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ST HILAIRE-NIVOSE” station (1756 m, 13.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 26 %
  2. 16-31 Dec16 cmInsufficient · 23 %
  3. 1-15 Jan20 cmInsufficient · 21 %
  4. 16-31 Jan27 cmInsufficient · 26 %
  5. 1-15 Feb28 cmInsufficient · 36 %
  6. 16-29 Feb23 cmInsufficient · 26 %
  7. 1-15 Mar20 cmInsufficient · 25 %
  8. 16-31 Mar12 cmInsufficient · 15 %
  9. 1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 5 %
Best winter of the series
2017-2018 — 108 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2019-2020 — 3 days at 30 cm or more

Snowfall: no long enough record of fresh snow at this station. Rather than an estimate, we show nothing.

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ST HILAIRE-NIVOSE” station (1756 m, 13.1 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 1756 m, well below the top of the ski area (2236 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails.
Why altitude matters. Pipay stretches from 1,900 m to 2,236 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme des 7 Laux and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September