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Snow report for Puy-Saint-Vincent today

At Puy-Saint-Vincent, over 27 measured winters at the PUY-ST-VINCENT weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 87 days a winter, and 267 cm falls over 24 days of snowfall.

Puy-Saint-Vincent is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,155 m and the ski area rises to 2,274 m, a skiable vertical of 679 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, Puy-Saint-Vincent 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 7.1 h · Dec 6.7 h · Jan 7 h · Feb 8.2 h · Mar 9.5 h · Apr 10.6 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December51 cmVariable · 72%
  3. January60 cmGood skiing · 88%
  4. February80 cmGood skiing · 99%
  5. March92 cmGood skiing · 98%
  6. April51 cmVariable · 56%
  7. 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 « PUY ST VINCENT_NIVO » (1680 m, à 1.3 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

27 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2023-2024 — on average 87 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “PUY-ST-VINCENT” station (1388 m, 0.4 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec21 cmInsufficient · 37 %
  2. 16-31 Dec33 cmVariable · 56 %
  3. 1-15 Jan46 cmVariable · 74 %
  4. 16-31 Jan58 cmGood skiing · 82 %
  5. 1-15 Feb66 cmGood skiing · 90 %
  6. 16-29 Feb65 cmGood skiing · 90 %
  7. 1-15 Mar60 cmVariable · 78 %
  8. 16-31 Mar38 cmVariable · 52 %
  9. 1-15 Apr16 cmInsufficient · 22 %
Best winter of the series
2005-2006 — 126 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
1992-1993 — 10 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 267 cm a winter on average, spread over 24 days of snowfall. Measured over 31 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
76 cm — 2012-2013
Snowiest winter
2012-2013 — 470 cm
Leanest winter
1992-1993 — 83 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “PUY-ST-VINCENT” station (1388 m, 0.4 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 1388 m, well below the top of the ski area (2274 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. Puy-Saint-Vincent stretches from 1,595 m to 2,274 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 du Pays des Écrins and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September