Snow report for Saint-Jean-d’Arves today

At Saint-Jean-d’Arves, over 32 measured winters at the ST-SORLIN D'ARVES weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 88 days a winter, and 371 cm falls over 35 days of snowfall.

Saint-Jean-d’Arves is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Saint-Jean-d'Arves. The village sits at 1,555 m and the ski area rises to 1,800 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-Jean-d’Arves 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 6.5 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.5 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 10.1 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December40 cmVariable · 61%
January50 cmVariable · 77%
February64 cmGood skiing · 87%
March61 cmVariable · 70%
April33 cmInsufficient · 36%
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 3.4 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

32 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2025-2026 — on average 88 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ST-SORLIN D'ARVES” station (1694 m, 4.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec25 cmInsufficient · 34 %
16-31 Dec35 cmVariable · 53 %
1-15 Jan49 cmVariable · 70 %
16-31 Jan62 cmGood skiing · 85 %
1-15 Feb73 cmGood skiing · 89 %
16-29 Feb76 cmGood skiing · 88 %
1-15 Mar71 cmVariable · 77 %
16-31 Mar46 cmVariable · 57 %
1-15 Apr24 cmInsufficient · 32 %

Best winter of the series: 2012-2013 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1992-1993 — 3 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 371 cm a winter on average, spread over 35 days of snowfall. Measured over 27 complete winters, from 1992-1993 to 2019-2020.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 70 cm — 2011-2012
Snowiest winter: 2017-2018 — 621 cm
Leanest winter: 1992-1993 — 138 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ST-SORLIN D'ARVES” station (1694 m, 4.2 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 1694 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-Jean-d’Arves stretches from 1,800 m to 1,800 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.