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Snow report for Saint-François-Longchamp today

At Saint-François-Longchamp, over 63 measured winters at the ST-MARTIN DE BELLEVILLE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 61 days a winter, and 297 cm falls over 37 days of snowfall.

Saint-François-Longchamp is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 808 m and the ski area rises to 2,516 m, a skiable vertical of 1,259 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026 and close on 9 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Saint-François-Longchamp opens on 12 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from January to April: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.3 h · Mar 8.4 h · Apr 9.9 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November16 cmInsufficient · 27%
  2. December63 cmVariable · 78%
  3. January102 cmGood skiing · 97%
  4. February125 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March132 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April100 cmGood skiing · 96%
  7. May36 cmVariable · 55%

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 1,417 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

63 complete winters measured, from 1959-1960 to 2025-2026 — on average 61 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ST-MARTIN DE BELLEVILLE” station (1443 m, 13.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec20 cmInsufficient · 27 %
  2. 16-31 Dec28 cmInsufficient · 38 %
  3. 1-15 Jan36 cmInsufficient · 47 %
  4. 16-31 Jan45 cmVariable · 62 %
  5. 1-15 Feb49 cmVariable · 68 %
  6. 16-29 Feb48 cmVariable · 70 %
  7. 1-15 Mar37 cmVariable · 54 %
  8. 16-31 Mar21 cmInsufficient · 30 %
  9. 1-15 Apr9 cmInsufficient · 9 %
Best winter of the series
1981-1982 — 128 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 — 297 cm a winter on average, spread over 37 days of snowfall. Measured over 59 complete winters, from 1959-1960 to 2020-2021.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
72 cm — 1970-1971
Snowiest winter
1969-1970 — 532 cm
Leanest winter
1963-1964 — 93 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ST-MARTIN DE BELLEVILLE” station (1443 m, 13.5 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 1443 m, well below the top of the ski area (2516 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-François-Longchamp stretches from 1,257 m to 2,516 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by Saint Francois Longchamp Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September