Snow report for Samoëns 1600 today

At Samoëns 1600, over 11 measured winters at the Flaine weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 104 days a winter, and 532 cm falls over 51 days of snowfall.

Samoëns 1600 is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Samoëns. The village sits at 1,600 m and the ski area rises to 1,708 m, a skiable vertical of 258 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, Samoëns 1600 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 April: a long, reliable season.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December59 cmVariable · 76%
January82 cmGood skiing · 89%
February109 cmGood skiing · 100%
March117 cmGood skiing · 100%
April89 cmGood skiing · 97%
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 « LES CARROZ KEDEUSAZ » (1760 m, à 4.0 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

11 complete winters measured, from 1988-1989 to 2025-2026 — on average 104 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Flaine” station (1620 m, 5.7 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec48 cmVariable · 56 %
16-31 Dec50 cmVariable · 63 %
1-15 Jan58 cmVariable · 77 %
16-31 Jan77 cmGood skiing · 86 %
1-15 Feb84 cmGood skiing · 88 %
16-29 Feb92 cmGood skiing · 92 %
1-15 Mar87 cmGood skiing · 93 %
16-31 Mar83 cmGood skiing · 84 %
1-15 Apr59 cmVariable · 62 %

Best winter of the series: 2007-2008 — 129 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1995-1996 — 58 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 532 cm a winter on average, spread over 51 days of snowfall. Measured over 10 complete winters, from 1995-1996 to 2025-2026.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 55 cm — 2011-2012
Snowiest winter: 2020-2021 — 741 cm
Leanest winter: 1996-1997 — 240 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Flaine” station (1620 m, 5.7 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 1620 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. Samoëns 1600 stretches from 1,450 m to 1,708 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.