Snow report for Plaine Joux today

At Plaine Joux, over 17 measured winters at the VALLORCINE_PLAN-DROIT weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 74 days a winter, and 334 cm falls over 27 days of snowfall.

Plaine Joux is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Passy. The village sits at 1,360 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, Plaine Joux 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.

Météo-France measurements · 9 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December54 cmVariable · 77%
January77 cmGood skiing · 87%
February94 cmGood skiing · 98%
March101 cmGood skiing · 91%
April61 cmVariable · 64%
May—no record

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

Météo-France snow observation network (poste nivo « Flaine » (1620 m, à 6.7 km)) — total snow depth recorded by the resort observers, open archive. During the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of readings with at least 30 cm on the ground; “—”: month without readings.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

17 complete winters measured, from 1995-1996 to 2021-2022 — on average 74 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “VALLORCINE_PLAN-DROIT” station (1326 m, 15.9 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec23 cmInsufficient · 32 %
16-31 Dec32 cmInsufficient · 44 %
1-15 Jan38 cmVariable · 56 %
16-31 Jan51 cmVariable · 68 %
1-15 Feb62 cmGood skiing · 82 %
16-29 Feb59 cmVariable · 79 %
1-15 Mar52 cmVariable · 74 %
16-31 Mar27 cmInsufficient · 39 %
1-15 Apr10 cmInsufficient · 15 %

Best winter of the series: 2012-2013 — 133 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2021-2022 — 26 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 334 cm a winter on average, spread over 27 days of snowfall. Measured over 18 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 90 cm — 1998-1999
Snowiest winter: 1998-1999 — 572 cm
Leanest winter: 2010-2011 — 137 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “VALLORCINE_PLAN-DROIT” station (1326 m, 15.9 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 1326 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.