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Snow report for Saint-Hilaire today

At Saint-Hilaire, over 58 measured winters at the GRANDE-CHARTREUSE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 42 days a winter, and 306 cm falls over 33 days of snowfall.

Saint-Hilaire is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Plateau-des-Petites-Roches. The village sits at 970 m and the ski area rises to 1,320 m, a skiable vertical of 346 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-Hilaire 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

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.3 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 6 h · Feb 7.3 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 9.9 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November4 cmInsufficient · 1%
  2. December25 cmInsufficient · 33%
  3. January40 cmVariable · 59%
  4. February42 cmVariable · 57%
  5. March30 cmInsufficient · 42%
  6. April7 cmInsufficient · 7%
  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
Estimate from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (Open-Meteo), about 9 km grid at 981 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

58 complete winters measured, from 1959-1960 to 2021-2022 — on average 42 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “GRANDE-CHARTREUSE” station (945 m, 9.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec16 cmInsufficient · 19 %
  2. 16-31 Dec19 cmInsufficient · 25 %
  3. 1-15 Jan23 cmInsufficient · 34 %
  4. 16-31 Jan28 cmInsufficient · 36 %
  5. 1-15 Feb31 cmInsufficient · 42 %
  6. 16-29 Feb33 cmInsufficient · 44 %
  7. 1-15 Mar30 cmInsufficient · 39 %
  8. 16-31 Mar18 cmInsufficient · 27 %
  9. 1-15 Apr11 cmInsufficient · 14 %
Best winter of the series
1980-1981 — 119 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 — 306 cm a winter on average, spread over 33 days of snowfall. Measured over 60 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
67 cm — 1969-1970
Snowiest winter
1969-1970 — 732 cm
Leanest winter
1996-1997 — 79 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “GRANDE-CHARTREUSE” station (945 m, 9.2 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 945 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.
Why altitude matters. Saint-Hilaire stretches from 974 m to 1,320 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.