Snow report for Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol today

At Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol, over 10 measured winters at the ST JEAN-ST-NICOLAS weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 1 days a winter.

Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,220 m and the ski area rises to 1,790 m, a skiable vertical of 237 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-Michel-de-Chaillol 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.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 7 h · Dec 6.5 h · Jan 6.8 h · Feb 8.1 h · Mar 9.4 h · Apr 10.4 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November8 cmInsufficient · 6%
December38 cmVariable · 57%
January62 cmGood skiing · 83%
February75 cmGood skiing · 95%
March74 cmGood skiing · 89%
April36 cmInsufficient · 39%
May4 cmInsufficient · 2%

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 1,458 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

10 complete winters measured, from 2016-2017 to 2025-2026 — on average 1 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ST JEAN-ST-NICOLAS” station (1210 m, 3.6 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec4 cmInsufficient · 0 %
16-31 Dec3 cmInsufficient · 1 %
1-15 Jan6 cmInsufficient · 4 %
16-31 Jan5 cmInsufficient · 1 %
1-15 Feb4 cmInsufficient · 0 %
16-29 Feb1 cmInsufficient · 0 %
1-15 Mar2 cmInsufficient · 1 %
16-31 Mar0 cmInsufficient · 0 %
1-15 Apr0 cmInsufficient · 0 %

Best winter of the series: 2017-2018 — 10 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2016-2017 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

Snowfall: no long enough record of fresh snow at this station. Rather than an estimate, we show nothing.

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ST JEAN-ST-NICOLAS” station (1210 m, 3.6 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 1210 m, well below the top of the ski area (1790 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails.

Why altitude matters. Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol stretches from 1,553 m to 1,790 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.