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Snow report for Serre Chevalier today

At Serre Chevalier, over 11 measured winters at the GALIBIER-NIVOSE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 112 days a winter.

Serre Chevalier is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 2,491 m and the ski area rises to 2,764 m, a skiable vertical of 365 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 5 December 2026 and close on 18 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Serre Chevalier opens on 5 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 December to May: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.7 h · Dec 6.4 h · Jan 6.7 h · Feb 7.9 h · Mar 9.2 h · Apr 10.4 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November30 cmInsufficient · 40%
  2. December81 cmGood skiing · 87%
  3. January112 cmGood skiing · 99%
  4. February128 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March147 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April129 cmGood skiing · 100%
  7. May74 cmGood skiing · 80%

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 1,401 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

11 complete winters measured, from 2015-2016 to 2025-2026 — on average 112 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “GALIBIER-NIVOSE” station (2559 m, 19.4 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec53 cmVariable · 64 %
  2. 16-31 Dec55 cmVariable · 73 %
  3. 1-15 Jan55 cmVariable · 79 %
  4. 16-31 Jan59 cmGood skiing · 82 %
  5. 1-15 Feb67 cmGood skiing · 88 %
  6. 16-29 Feb66 cmGood skiing · 90 %
  7. 1-15 Mar79 cmGood skiing · 93 %
  8. 16-31 Mar88 cmGood skiing · 90 %
  9. 1-15 Apr93 cmGood skiing · 89 %
Best winter of the series
2019-2020 — 137 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2015-2016 — 23 days 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 “GALIBIER-NIVOSE” station (2559 m, 19.4 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 2559 m. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails.
Why altitude matters. Serre Chevalier stretches from 2,399 m to 2,764 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September