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Snow report for Saint-Colomban-des-Villards today

At Saint-Colomban-des-Villards, 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.

Saint-Colomban-des-Villards is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 1,085 m and the ski area rises to 2,584 m, a skiable vertical of 1,501 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, Saint-Colomban-des-Villards 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

Reliable snow mainly in February; more irregular the rest of the winter.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 6 h · Feb 7.3 h · Mar 8.4 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December40 cmVariable · 61%
  3. January50 cmVariable · 77%
  4. February64 cmGood skiing · 87%
  5. March61 cmVariable · 70%
  6. April33 cmInsufficient · 36%
  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 « Le Corbier » (1585 m, à 6.1 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

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, 12.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec22 cmInsufficient · 29 %
  2. 16-31 Dec27 cmInsufficient · 40 %
  3. 1-15 Jan34 cmVariable · 53 %
  4. 16-31 Jan47 cmVariable · 73 %
  5. 1-15 Feb55 cmGood skiing · 85 %
  6. 16-29 Feb57 cmGood skiing · 84 %
  7. 1-15 Mar55 cmGood skiing · 82 %
  8. 16-31 Mar35 cmInsufficient · 48 %
  9. 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, 12.1 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 1540 m, well below the top of the ski area (2584 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. Saint-Colomban-des-Villards stretches from 1,083 m to 2,584 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 Espace Glandon and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September