Snow report for Pralognan-la-Vanoise today

At Pralognan-la-Vanoise, over 65 measured winters at the PRALOGNAN LA VANOISE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 94 days a winter, and 372 cm falls over 39 days of snowfall.

Pralognan-la-Vanoise is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The ski area rises to 2,340 m.

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Today’s snow report

Off season

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, Pralognan-la-Vanoise does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

65 complete winters measured, from 1959-1960 to 2023-2024 — on average 94 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “PRALOGNAN LA VANOISE” station (1420 m, 1.6 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec22 cmInsufficient · 30 %
16-31 Dec35 cmVariable · 50 %
1-15 Jan48 cmVariable · 69 %
16-31 Jan60 cmGood skiing · 82 %
1-15 Feb70 cmGood skiing · 92 %
16-29 Feb74 cmGood skiing · 95 %
1-15 Mar69 cmGood skiing · 93 %
16-31 Mar54 cmVariable · 73 %
1-15 Apr30 cmInsufficient · 44 %

Best winter of the series: 1965-1966 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1963-1964 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 372 cm a winter on average, spread over 39 days of snowfall. Measured over 68 complete winters, from 1950-1951 to 2023-2024.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 100 cm — 1970-1971
Snowiest winter: 1998-1999 — 650 cm
Leanest winter: 1963-1964 — 89 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “PRALOGNAN LA VANOISE” station (1420 m, 1.6 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 1420 m, well below the top of the ski area (2340 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 6.4 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.2 h · Apr 9.9 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

Why altitude matters. Pralognan-la-Vanoise stretches to 2,340 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

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